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Any of several bluish grey varieties of stone used for construction:
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Either of two related copper- and sulfur-based bright blue stones:
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Lapis lazuli, or its core constituent, lazurite.
Examples of bluestone in a Sentence
On the Pocono plateau is a large deposit of a finegrained dark-blue stone of the Devonian formation which is known as the Wyoming Valley stone, and, like the New York " bluestone," which it closely resembles, is much used for window and door trimmings, steps and flagging.
The Anglican church of St Mary is built of Oamaru and bluestone, with a roof of kauri wood.
Gibson and begun in 1883; St Peter's Episcopal Church (French Gothic), of Hudson River bluestone; Emmanuel Baptist Church, of white granite; the Madison Avenue Reformed Church; and St Joseph's (Roman Catholic), of bluestone and Caen stone with marble trimmings.
A little further on is St Patrick's Roman Catholic cathedral, the seat of the archbishop of Melbourne, a building of somewhat sombre bluestone.
In 1908 the value of Pennsylvania sandstone and bluestone was $1,368,784.
Main contractors bluestone are pleased with the progress of the project which could see the completion of the drainage by late September.