Also 7 flagge. [f. FLAG sb.2] trans. To pave with or as with flagstones. Also of a stone or stones: To form the floor or paving of. To flag over: to cover with a pavement.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 130. The stones so great, that eight floores it, eight roofes it, eight flagge the ends, and stxteene the sides; all of wel wrought Theban marble. Ibid., 177. The wals are flagged with large tables of white marble, well-nigh to the top: the rest adorned, with Mosaique painting, although now greatly defac’d.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, II. 187. It is flagged also within with white Marble, and paved in like manner.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 179, ¶ 8. What Ground remains on both Sides, between these little smooth Fields of Green, is flagged with large Quarries of white Marble, where the blue Veins trace out such a Variety of irregular Windings thro’ the clear Surface, that these bright Plains seem full of Rivulets and Streaming Meanders.
1810. Ann. Reg., 755/2. The streets in Paris are not flagged on the sides as in London; a rough pavement extends all the way across the street.
1855. Mrs. Gatty, Parables fr. Nature, Ser. I. (1869), 125. The first fire that ever warmed the hearthstone that flagged the grand old chimney-arch of ancient times, ended for ever the mystery of the House Crickets’ wants and cravings.
1884. G. H. Boughton, Artist Strolls in Holland, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 714/1. It was at one time the cathedral cemetery, but many years ago they quietly flagged the dead over with their own grave-stones.
