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• a variation of pavior.

paviour

British  

/ ˈpeɪvjə /

noun

1. a person who lays paving

2. a machine for ramming down paving

3. material used for paving

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Etymology

Origin of paviour

C15: from paver, from _pave

Example Sentences

A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

They were "maidens" among the paviour folk, and determined not to give up this honourable appellation, and let themselves be miscalled rammers.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

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.

From Fanny With Other Poems by Halleck, Fitz-Greene

The ancient paviour said, his eldest son was a captain in the East Indies; and the youngest had lately inlisted as a soldier, in hopes of prospering like his brother.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

A paviour, of the name of Obrien, assured me in 1750, that he only meant to sleep one night in Birmingham, in his way from London to Dublin.

From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William