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pavement

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any paved floor. 2 (context chiefly British English) A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pavement may refer to: Pavement (architecture) , a floor-like stone or tile structure Road surface , the durable surfacing of roads and walkways Sidewalk , a walkway along the side of a road Portuguese pavement , the traditional paving used in most pedestrian ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from Old French pavement "roadway, pathway; paving stone" (12c.) and directly from Latin pavimentum "hard floor, level surface beaten firm," from pavire (see pave ).

Usage examples of pavement.

For Juanita Mott became the sixth young woman in the space of just two years to be sexually abused, tortured, decapitated and finally dismembered in the cellar beneath the pavement of number 25 Cromwell Street.

Nichols - the names written in the wet cement when the pavement was new long ago, the great ailanthus tree in the schoolyard, the weatherbeaten gargoyles over the doorway of the building across the street.

His grave in the north aisle of the nave was opened when the present pavement was laid down in 1736, and a chalice and paten taken from it.

Graciela watched the visitors as they sat at the pavement cafes drinking aperitives or shopping at the pescaderia - the fish market, or thefarmacia.

Langeron and Yekaterininskaya streets, directly opposite the huge Fankoni Cafe where stockbrokers and grain merchants in Panama hats sat at marble-topped tables set out right on the pavement, Paris-style, under awnings and surrounded by potted laurel trees, the cab in which Auntie and Pavlik were travelling was all but overturned by a bright-red automobile driven by the heir to the famous Ptashnikov Bros, firm, a grotesquely bloated young man in a tiny yachting cap, who looked amazingly like a prize Yorkshire pig.

Tremaine followed Giliead across the littered pavement to the doorway, Ilias hauling Balin along after her.

I was through the back door with my foot on the pavement when I saw Beyers turn the key and step on the accelerator.

The sidekick, or whoever she is, tugs a briefcase out of the limo and allows her armful of bumph to brim over on to the pavement.

The pavement to his left became invitingly bare, and young Caddles went slowly on his way.

The buildings, the canyon, seemed so steep and dark and faraway Then I heard Chucky hit the pavement.

My head struck the hard pavement with a resounding whack, and to that alone I owe my life, for it cleared my brain and the pain roused my temper, so that I was equal for the moment to tearing my enemy to pieces with my bare hands, and I verily believe that I should have attempted it had not my right hand, in the act of raising my body from the ground, come in contact with a bit of cold metal.

They fell through the yards and yards of air, their ends coiling slightly on the pavement.

Boulevard de la Croisette, other eaters and drinkers had left their restaurants and cafes and were beginning to pack the pavements again.

Next day a great number of citizens represented, in another petition, that the pavement of the city and liberties was often damaged, by being broken up for the purposes of amending or new-laying water-pipes belonging to the proprietors of water-works, and praying that provision might be made in the bill then depending, to compel those proprietors to make good any damage that should be done to the pavement by the leaking or bursting of the water-pipes, or opening the pavement for alterations.

The tires gritted on the dusty pavement but the chains and derailleurs were silky, silent except for the delicate whir of the bearings.