cobblestoned

English

Etymology

From cobblestone +‎ -ed.

Adjective

cobblestoned (not comparable)

  1. Cobbled; laid with cobblestones.
    • 1961, Morley Callaghan, A passion in Rome:
      Wandering away from the entrance to the restaurant, Sam stood by the fountain in the old cobblestoned square, looking at the church of Santa Maria...
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 407, about Winsford, Somerset:
      A handsome thatched inn, the Royal Oak, stands opposite a cobblestoned packhorse bridge over the River Winn [sic] [Winn Brook], and there are seven more bridges and a ford in the village.
  2. (medicine) Exhibiting cobblestoning.
    • 2005, Carolyn E Patterson, Perspectives on lung endothelial barrier function:
      But, beyond gross morphologic observations this is purely speculative and not tested by studies in cobblestoned monolayers.
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