flagstaff

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1. A pole on which a flag is raised.

   Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. This was run up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday morning.

   1945, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Animal Farm

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   1988, Rhodes Boyson, Hansard, 7 June, 1988, Criminal Justice Bill, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ The abolition of the death penalty has been the flagstaff of the permissive society. We know what that has meant for the people of this country. Local newspapers are full of articles about robbery, murder, rape and, literally, pillage.

   Synonyms: flagpole

1. A city, the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, United States.

   The renaissance of downtown Flagstaff brought new life to its old brick buildings in the form of hip new places to eat, drink and sleep.

   2024 June 25, Joe Yogerst, “Grand Canyon pit stop is now a bona fide hot spot”, in CNN, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024

2. A town in Victoria, Australia.