English Explanatory Dictionary

permastone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any superficial surface constructed to look like stonework, usually made of concrete or thin sheets of rock assembled over an existing surface.

Word forms

permastone

Etymology

A genericization from a trade name of the 1940s, Perma-Stone, itself a proprialization from what had previously been a lexical gap affixation, perma- + stone.

Synonyms

formstone[Appendix:Glossary

Related words

cementacious cementitious
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