释义 |
paved, ppl. a.|peɪvd| [f. pave v. + -ed1.] 1. Laid with a pavement; having a pavement; † set or laid together as a pavement (obs.).
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 33 (82) And fond two oþere ladyes sette and she Wiþ-Inne a paued parlour. 1422Surtees Misc. (1888) 16 The glasse wyndows, the bynkes, the paved flore. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 13 The joyous people..with their garments strowes the paved street. 1611Bible Exod. xxiv. 10 There was vnder his feet, as it were a paued worke of a Saphire stone. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 125 Surrounded with a paved area. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop x, He..arrived in a square paved court. 2. Compactly set so as to form a structure resembling a pavement: said of the teeth of some fishes.
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