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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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)
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)
But it is obvious that the paviour in a field hops the clod; that the clodhopper in a street paces the pavé.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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
A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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