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Meaning of plum-pudding stone in English:

plum-pudding stone

noun

informal, historical

  • (Originally) a conglomerate in which flint pebbles are embedded in a paler siliceous or calcareous matrix; (in later use) any conglomerate.

Origin

Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Charles Labelye (d. ?1781).