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unˈpaved, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) P v, O Rome, I wepe not to see thy streetes vnpaued,..nor that the battylmentes fall downe. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xviii. 51 b, A great and large place vnpaued. 1627Hakewill Apol. ii. vii. 123 The streetes of the citty lying then vnpaued. 1741tr. D'Argen's Chinese Lett. xiii. 82 If most of its Streets were not crooked, narrow, rugged, and generally unpav'd. 1805Ann. Rev. III. 18 In Philadelphia the privies are unpaved. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvi, We marched up through a hot, sandy, unpaved street. 1884Manch. Exam. 14 Nov. 5/6 The roads were all unpaved earth roads.
fig.1823Byron Juan x. ii, The mode In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose Through the then unpaved stars the turnpike road.
b. In allusive use: (cf. stoned ppl. a. 4).
1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iii. 34 It is a voyce in her eares which Horse-haires, and Calues-guts, nor the voyce of vnpaued Eunuch to boot, can neuer amend. |