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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She thumped like a pavior through the settling ashes at the secret thrill of it.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
As bad luck would have it, there was trouble near, between a gentleman who had been drinking wine, and a pavior who was sober.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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 James R. Gilmore
“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 Ambrose Bierce
"So it is, and the gentleman was in body a rather weakly man, but, for all that, I say again, the pavior undertook something above his strength."
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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