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单词 pavie
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pavien.1

Brit. /ˈpeɪvi/, U.S. /ˈpeɪvi/, Scottish English /ˈpevɪ/, /ˈpavɪ/, /pəˈvi/
Forms: pre-1700 pavy, pre-1700 1700s– pavie, 1700s– pauvee, 1800s paavie, 1800s peevee, 1800s peyvee, 1800s– pauvie, 1800s– pavee, 1800s– pivvie.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare paw n.2 and -y suffix6.A suggested derivation < Middle French, French pas vif lively step, is unlikely.
Scottish.
A clever or deceptive movement; a nimble gesture; a flourish. In later use also: an exaggerated or excessive movement; a commotion, a bustle, a flurry.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick
colea1307
playa1475
conveyance1534
legerdemain?1544
prank1555
convoyance1578
sleight1596
pass1599
paviea1605
trick1609
sleight of handa1626
hocus-pocus1647
juggle1664
hocus-trickc1680
passe-passe1687
jugglementa1708
thaumaturgics1721
necromantics1745
conjuration1820
a1605 R. Birrel Diarey 47 in J. G. Dalyell Fragm. of Scotish Hist. (1798) A juglar..playit sic sowple tricks upone ane tow..the lyk wes nevir sene in yis countrie, as he raid doune the tow and playit sa maney pavies on it.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 72 For some of such had play'd a pavie.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 47 Well versed in Court Modes; In French Pavies, and new Com'd Nods.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherd MS 106 Well drest an' clean, an' stately step with a', With a pavie he comes into the Ha'.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 381 Some people are always in a peyvee throng, seemingly to the last degree, yet doing little.
1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 82 Paavie (accent on last syllable), a kind of fantastic gesture, waving with the hand, etc.; when speaking, using such gestures is called the ‘paavie’.
1881 Good Words 22 406 What she would have termed a ‘peyvee’—a useless, unnecessary bustle which meant effectually to prevent any settled conversation.
1912 C. P. Slater Marget Pow in Foreign Parts 96 We came away from Lucerne yesterday, at eight o'clock in the mornin' in a terrible pavee, and very nearly lost the train.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. (at cited word) In a pavie, in a state of worry or excitement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pavien.2

Brit. /ˈpeɪvi/, U.S. /ˈpeɪvi/
Forms: 1600s pavyes (plural), 1600s 1800s pavy, 1600s– pavie, 1700s pavey, 1800s pavé.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pavie.
Etymology: < French pavie (1560 in Middle French), probably < Pavie (French Pavie, Occitan Pavia), the name of a town in the department of Gers, Southern France. Compare Occitan pavia (a1670), Catalan pavia, Spanish pavía (1739).An alternative derivation < Pavie , French form of the name of Pavia in Italy (see Pavian adj.), seems unlikely, as the term does not occur in Italian.
Chiefly Horticulture.
A clingstone peach or nectarine.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach > clingstone peach
presse1604
pavie1675
clingstone1840
lemon cling1848
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach
presse1604
avant-peach1611
man peach1629
nutmeg1629
Roman peach1629
muscat1664
Rambouillet1664
winter peach1664
rumbullion1670
Orleans1674
pavie1675
Magdalenea1678
minion1691
admirable1693
maudlin1699
clingstone1705
nipple peach1719
rareripe1722
melter1766
vanguard1786
freestone1807
cling1845
lemon cling1848
peregrine1903
doughnut peach1993
1675 C. Cotton Planters Man. 119 These are commonly distinguished into Pavies, that do not part from the stone, and are the males; and Peaches which do cleave from the stone, and are the females.
1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1720) I. 183 Of the Pavies or Hard Peaches, I know none good here but the Newington.
1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) The White Pavey outwardly is the same with the White Magdalen, only in opening, it is found to be a Pavey, viz. Cleaving to the Stone.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Peach-tree The French distinguish those we call peaches into two sorts, viz. pavies, and peaches.
1825 N.Y. Lit. Gaz. 8 Oct. 79/1 It [sc. the fruit of the Mammaea] was as large as a small shaddock, and on being cut, was found to be constituted very much like the pavy or cling-stone peach, though often with more kernels or stones than one.
1892 Chambers's Encycl. (new ed.) VII. 824/1 The peach and nectarine are palpably divided..into clingstones (or Pavies) and freestones.
1913 F. A. Waugh Amer. Peach Orchard xx. 234 In a list of thirty-nine choice sorts of peaches, given by Mr. Forsyth, only six are received by the French as pavies or clingstones.
2000 Grocer (Nexis) 3 June 16 Some varieties [of peach], known as pavies, go for processing and do not affect the fresh market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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