paviour
Britishnoun
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a person who lays paving
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a machine for ramming down paving
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material used for paving
Etymology
Origin of paviour
C15: from paver, from pave
Example Sentences
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The paviours in the street below were taking their after-dinner nap with their heads on their empty food baskets.
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As if in imitation of the paviours of Cincinnati, portions of my Company now began to strike.
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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.
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A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour.
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On that occasion it is said two English paviours in Fleet Street bet that they would pave more in a day than four Scotchmen could.
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