Pavianadj.n.

1633 W. Lithgow Scotlands Welcome sig. F1^v The Millane Dutchy, nor Pavian bounds..Can not this Monsters Monarchy, confyne.

1639 G. Chapman & J. Shirley Trag. Chabot ii. iii. sig. D I send for you about a service Of equall price to me, as if againe My ransome came to me from Pavian thraldome.

1765 W. Guthrie et al. Gen. Hist. World X. 50 They took an oath of fidelity to his holiness, and agreed to pay him twelve Pavian pence yearly for every yoke of oxen in their dominions.

1824 Lancet 31 July 155/2 The investigations of Cotugnius were made without his being in the least acquainted with those of the Pavian Professor.

1881 Dublin Rev. Oct. 422 (note) In crediting Lanfranc with the introduction of a Pavian type of the Lombard romanesque into Normandy and England, I do not wish it to be inferred that [etc.].

1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 62 In some of the Pavian churches an acanthus decoration is to be met with, consisting of a regular diaper or brocade pattern of palmette leaves.

1993 U. Allemandi et al. Art Newspaper (BNC) 26 The Pavian sculptor Baldino di Surso gives a sense of volume and solidity to his essentially late Gothic carving of ‘Saint James’.

1712 J. Henley tr. B. de Montfaucon Trav. Italy ii. 38 40 Years after, the Pavians [L. Ticinenses] being deliver'd from that dread [sc. fear of the French], the Body was brought back to the former Place.

1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 7. lviii. 483 Francisco Guinigi, was appointed with the number of auxiliary troops in favour of the Pavians.

1857 B. W. Procter Florentine Party 240 Two noble youths: Guidotto one, a high-born Cremonese, And one a Pavian, Mutio Imola.

1888 W. Benham tr. Platina Lives of Popes I. 260 John the Fourteenth, a Roman, or, as some will have it, a Pavian.

1989 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Mar. A former interior minister, who has an office in Pavia, said that like many other Pavians, he had a view of the tower from his window.