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paviour

/ ˈ±è±ðɪ±¹ÂáÉ™ /

noun

  1. a person who lays paving
  2. a machine for ramming down paving
  3. material used for paving
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of paviour1

C15: from paver, from pave
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The paviours in the street below were taking their after-dinner nap with their heads on their empty food baskets.

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As if in imitation of the paviours of Cincinnati, portions of my Company now began to strike.

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So the whole city visited Swamp Spring en masse, From attorney to sweep, from physician to paviour, To drink of cold water at sixpence a glass, And learn true politeness and genteel behaviour.

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A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour.

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On that occasion it is said two English paviours in Fleet Street bet that they would pave more in a day than four Scotchmen could.

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