Meanings
plural floorstones · alternative floor-stone · alternative floor stone
- A stone making up part of a floor or flooring.
The other families buried in this church, by the floor-stone inscriptions, are, Seagrave, Hough, Cragg, Hyde, and Hutchinson.
1780, Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle1 more example
It is, therefore, the author's opinion that this floor, and the theoretical chamber itself (which was either never completed, or completed and then dismantled), represented a mere ploy chamber, under whose massive floorstones the real burial chamber lay.
2024, J.P. Lepre, The Egyptian Pyramids
Origin
- Old Englishflōrstān
- Middle English*flor-ston
- Englishfloorstone
From Middle English *flor-ston, from Old English flōrstān, equivalent to floor + stone.
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