Definitions
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- noun A slab of stone used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
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- noun A
stone slab used as aveneer forcoarse masonry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ye stones and slatt about Peroth Look'd so Red yt at my Entrance into the town thought its buildings were all of brick, but after found it to be the Coullour of the stone wch I saw in the Quarrys Look very Red, their slatt is the same wch Cover their houses.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Here I Came to villages of sad little hutts made up of drye walls, only stones piled together and ye Roofs of same slatt; there seemed to be little or noe tunnells for their Chimneys and have no morter or Plaister within or without.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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The Roofe is Cover'd wth slatt wch shines and very much represents Lead, its adorn'd round ye Edges wth stone ffigures and flower potts.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Two mile from Plymouth we Come to ye river Plym just by a Little town all built of stone and ye tyleing is all flatt wch with ye Lime its Cemented, wch makes it Look white Like snow, and in the sun shineing on the slatt it Glisters.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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