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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crazy paving
noun
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▪ Crazy choice Where is the best place to buy crazy paving and how is it laid?
▪ From there the long straight pathway of decorative crazy paving led past the houses to a matching gate at the far end.
▪ Mrs Maugham did not like crazy paving, because the stones worked loose, and she wanted it done in asphalt.
▪ Outside in a triumph of properly-laid crazy paving pathways and terraces, to give several levels.
▪ Similar in construction to ordinary paving, the popular crazy paving path or drive suffers the same problems.
▪ The crazy paving slabs came up easily enough.
▪ The tension of the wire will secure the hooks against the crazy paving permanently.
▪ The worn crazy paving provides a soft and very unobtrusive backdrop.
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crazy paving

n. Paving with pieces of irregular size and shape that fit together and (approximately) cover the surface.

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Crazy paving

Crazy paving is a means of hard-surfacing used outdoors, most frequently in gardens. Paving stones of irregular size and shape are laid in a haphazard manner sometimes with mortar filling the gaps between. The method originated in Ancient Rome.

The term may also refer to a pattern seen on computed tomography of the chest, involving lobular septal thickening with variable alveolar filling.

Usage examples of "crazy paving".

Now, you remember, I told you there was blood on Goldschild's crazy paving and blood on the hedge at the back.

When he frowned the filth on his face cracked like crazy paving, a second skin of grime which Was the accrual of many months.

A plate of spaghetti, the spirograph pattern on a lampshade, the crazy paving in the back garden.