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English
Noun
cobble-stone (countable and uncountable, plural cobble-stones)
- Alternative form of cobblestone.
1851, Andrew Dickinson, “France”, in My First Visit to Europe: or, Sketches of Society, Scenery, and Antiquities, in England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and France, New York, N.Y.: George P Putnam, ; London: John Chapman, , →OCLC, page 157:I walked on a couple of miles through the gloomy old town with houses eighty or a hundred feet high, the narrow sidewalks paved with cobble-stone, the common people taking the middle of the street.
1893, A Conan Doyle, “The Man from America”, in The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents, volume I, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, , page 1:Between were the cobble-stones of the Rue St. Martin and the clatter of innumerable feet.
1916, Edgar Wallace, The Island of Galloping Gold, London: George Newnes, Ltd., , →OCLC, page 68:He talked of diorites, trachytes, of triassic rocks, and calcareous veins till my brain reeled, and he finally left me with the impression that even the cobble-stone is not to be despised as a milling proposition.