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half-staff

noun

Definitions

  1. Half-mast.

    • [T]he agents of the steamship lines drowned their sorrow in rum and ran the house flags to half-staff.
    • Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, Poland's man of power, died here tonight. . . . Flags were lowered to half staffs.
    • President Bush's decision to honor Pope John Paul II by ordering flags lowered to half-staff on all public buildings has reignited a debate about the separation of church and state.

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