单词 | paven |
释义 | pavenadj. literary and poetic. = paved adj. 1. Also figurative and in extended use.Frequently with preceding modifying word indicating the material used. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [adjective] > paved paved1330 well-pavedc1400 paven1637 pavimented1717 1637 J. Milton Comus 30 Rise,..From thy coral-paven bed. 1751 Student 2 No. 8. 310 No more I seek the pansie-paven vale, Whose borders brown the branching beech o'ershades. 1762 St. James's Mag. 1 60 Beating the panic-paven ground. a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas lix, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 48 Lotus-pav'n canals. 1869 R. L. Stevenson Let. 18 June in Scribner's Mag. (1899) 25 42/1 One catches a cool glimpse of a paven entrance-court. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 615 On the roadway..a horse, dragging a sweeper, paced on the paven ground. 1932 C. A. Smith Planet of Dead (Electronic ed.) The towering obelisks and piles along the paven road were the high tombs, the proud monuments of its immemorial dead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1637 |
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