Noun
A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).
Source: Webster's dictionaryhalf mast
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. Henry Miller
By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher. Rush Limbaugh
Boy Scouts at Granada War Relocation Center raising flag to half-mast during a Memorial Service for first six Nisei soldiers from this Center who were killed in action in Italy. Source: Internet
Flags outside Waitākere Police Station were flying at half-mast on Friday, surrounded by bouquets of flowers in the hours after the officer's death. Source: Internet
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta, ordered the flags of City Hall to be flown half-mast in Lewis’s honor, calling him “the most brave of giants” in a tweet. Source: Internet
Al Kattau, 89, a 71-year member of the North Patchogue Fire Department, passed away on Nov. 8 and NPFD Chief Jon Mentzel ordered all department flags to half-mast. Source: Internet