[f. FLAG sb.2 + -ED2.] Paved with flags or slabs of marble, stone, etc.
1634–5. Brereton, Trav. (1844), 86. This town (a great part of it) placed upon the highest and the steepest hills that I have found in any great town; these so steep as horses cannot stand upon the pavements,—therefore the daintiest flagged channels are in every street that I have seen: hereupon may horse or man go without danger of sliding.
1777. W. Dalrymple, Trav. Sp. & Port., iii.. Our apartment, which had a flagged floor, was furnished with two broken chairs; a small table; and a picture of Our Saviour on the cross.
1852. R. S. Surtees, Sponge’s Sp. Tour, lxii. 350. They paced backwards and forwards under the flagged verandah.
