pavior
Americannoun
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a person that paves; paver.
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a material used for paving.
Etymology
Origin of pavior
1375–1425; alteration of late Middle English pavier; see pave, -ier 1
Example Sentences
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“Cannot an honest pavior perform his work in peace, and get his money for it, and his living by it, without others talking rot about ambition and hopes of fame?”
From Fantastic Fables by Bierce, Ambrose
I do not know whether my back-woods friend, or the Parisian pavior, was the first inventor of this composition, but I am satisfied the corn-cracker had not stolen it from the stone-cracker.
From Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time by Gilmore, James R.
The ox-driver in the fields, the pavior in the city streets, the laborer on the railroad, the lumberer in the woods, the girl in the factory, each has a claim on him.
From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Parker, Theodore
She thumped like a pavior through the settling ashes at the secret thrill of it.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
Jacques and Raoul and Pierre, and every peasant and pavior in Paris will come with boxes and panniers, and each of them will also demand his gold.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson
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