curbstone
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈkɜːrbˌstoʊn/
- US
:
bordillo
- The front door knob and curbstone from Mahogany Hall are now on display at the Louisiana State Museum.
Examples
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They are at the curbstone, waiting.
Fiction book (1992) -
Marble is so plentiful locally that it is used for the construction of groins, jetties, and curbstones.
Academic text (2008) -
Sitting right on our curbstones.
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Cotter keeps to the curbstone fifteen yards ahead of them, with people passing in between.
Fiction book (1992) -
He stepped easily from the brown dirt road onto the high white curbstones.
Fiction book (1991) -
He was standing alone on the curbstone, and two dark figures were materializing out of the shadows to intercept him before he went in.
Fiction book (1990) -
An oncoming car swerved to avoid them, squawked off the curbstone, and veered down the street.
Fiction book (1991) -
And the city, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its curbstones, offering you melons and green apples on the corner.
Fiction book (1992) -
The children played safely on the sidewalk while avoiding the curbstone.
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She stumbled and fell against the curbstone while rushing to catch the bus.
Synonyms
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2.1
A raised edge between a sidewalk and the road
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Curbstone is made of curb and stone. The word curb comes from an old word meaning 'bent' or 'edge', the same root as curve, so a curbstone is a stone that marks the edge of a road or sidewalk.