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单词 pavemented
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pavementedadj.

Brit. /ˈpeɪvm(ə)ntəd/, U.S. /ˈpeɪvmən(t)əd/
Forms: 1500s paymented (Scottish), 1600s– pavemented.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pavement n., -ed suffix2; pavement v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < pavement n. + -ed suffix2, and partly < pavement v. + -ed suffix1. Compare earlier pavementing n., paved adj.
Having a pavement; covered by or consisting of pavement; (also, occasionally) serving as a pavement.
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1599 A. Hume Poems (1902) 30 Back from the blew paymented whun, And from ilk plaister wall.
1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 131 The pavemented waves yeelded a firme calsey to thy sacred feet, to walke on.
1799 C. Cooke Battleridge I. ix. 203 I..was taken off my horse, and led over grass to a long pavemented walk.
1851 G. Wheeler Rural Homes viii. 115 The stone flagging of the pavemented town is merging into the neatly kept gravel walk of the suburbs.
1948 S. Spender in R. March & ‘Tambimuttu’ T. S. Eliot: Symposium (1949) iii. 107 I see his room—Pavemented floor, star-pointed ceiling.
1966 Amer. Midland Naturalist 75 96 The soils become coarser in texture and more rocky, are less sorted in particle size, and have a surface less stable with fewer flats or pavemented areas.
2003 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 24 Aug. 3 Up the hill into the village and another mile back along a safely pavemented road to the barn.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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