"kerb-stone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kerb-stones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kerb-stone (plural kerb-stones)
  1. Alternative form of kerbstone Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: kerbstone
    Sense id: en-kerb-stone-en-noun-ZO1tWIoK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Along the kerb-stone, itinerant vendors of prints, and stain-cleaning pastes, and mosaic gold chains, and studs, display their merchandise; and round the corner, near the tavern door, the Italian boy grinds his pianoorgan in dumb show.",
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          "text": "He snatches away the piece of sacking that is supposed to retain the caloric in the loins of his horse, goes through a series of evolutions in order to bring his cab alongside the kerb-stone, a process which could not be adequately described without the aid of diagrams, and which the uninitiated might consider was for the purpose of driving the horse in at the open door of the vehicle, instead of putting the passenger there.",
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