causey
Americannoun
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an archaic or dialect word for causeway
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a cobbled street
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a cobblestone
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Etymology
Origin of causey
1125–75; Middle English cauce < Anglo-French < Old North French caucie, variant of cauciee < Late Latin ( via ) calciāta (road) paved with limestone, equivalent to Latin calci- (stem of calx ) limestone + -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate 1
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Truth and honesty keep the crown o' the causey.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
He's a causey saint and a house deil.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
"Now, cannoniers!" cried Don Hernan, elevating his voice above the tumult, when the rushing masses were within but a few paces of the causey; "now to your linstocks, and touch in the name of God!"
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
The boys continued talking about the hornet's nest all the way home, and forgot to say any thing more about the causey until just as they were going into the yard.
From Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbott
The boys went on with their work the next day, and built the causey up high enough with stones.
From Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbott
All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts—and then All the men!
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
But he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts,—and then, All the men!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Instead of putting to death such criminals as had been sentenced to die by the judges, he made them repair the causeys, on which the respective cities to which they belonged were situated.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
But he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts—and then,65 All the men!
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
For he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts,—and then, All the men!
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
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