causey

American  

[kaw-zee] / ˈkɔ zi /

noun

• causeys
  plural

1. British Dialect. a causeway.

2. Archaic. an ancient Roman highway.

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causey British  

/ ˈkɔːzɪ /

noun

1. an archaic or dialect word for causeway

2. a cobbled street

3. a cobblestone

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• causeys
  plural

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

Example Sentences

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causey causeys

But I persisted in my resolution to have the causey renewed by contract; and all the inhabitants of the town gave me credit for introducing such a great reformation into the management of public affairs.

From The Provost by John Galt

They were riding along a broad dusty track which bordered a stone causey raised above the level of winter floods; impulsively she turned to him.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman

They said nothing; but the sound of their feet on the silent stones of the causey, was as the noise of a dreadful engine. 

From The Provost by John Galt

At other times I rode by the causey which crossed the marsh extending from Beltoft to the Butterwick ferry, and scoured the roads and lanes on the other side of the river.

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton

When busy tongues are railing, Lown is her word unsaucy, And with modest grace unfailing She trips it o'er the causey.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers

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

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

All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts—and then All the men!

From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield

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, All the men!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson