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

The next thing I knew was that I lay on the causey, dizzy and sick.

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

The boys went on with their work the next day, and built the causey up high enough with stones.

From Rollo at Work by Abbott, Jacob

TYRUS, an ancient city of Phœnicia, situate on an island so near the continent, that Alexander the Great formed it into a peninsula, by the mole or causey which he threw up during the siege.

From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Tacitus, Cornelius

Turning a sharp corner of the lane pretty quickly, I almost ran over a lady coming along the causey in the opposite direction.

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

Wheel round half your pieces, and sweep the causey sides behind;—for I hear the coming of friends.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

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 Reynolds, Myra

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 Symons, Arthur

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell

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 Rollin, Charles