unpavedadj.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. P.v O Rome, I wepe not to see thy streetes vnpaued,..nor that the battylmentes fall downe.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xviii. 51 b A great and large place vnpaued.

1617 L. Digges tr. Claudian Rape Proserpine i. sig. E^v Orphnæus (shaking his vnruly head) And Aethon (swift as flight) together tread And (trampling in th'infernall entrie) beate Each fire strucke flint from it's vnpaued seate.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie ii. vii. 123 The streetes of the citty lying then vnpaued.

1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. xiii. 82 If most of its Streets were not crooked, narrow, rugged, and generally unpav'd.

1788 E. Blower Features from Life I. xiii. 200 Nothing but a fireless hearth, an unpaved floor, and bare walls.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto X ii. 54 The mode In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose Through the then unpaved stars the turnpike road.

1884 Manch. Examiner 14 Nov. 5/6 The roads were all unpaved earth roads.

1919 3rd Biennial Rep. Oregon State Highway Comm. 77 It is expected that a rocked surface over the remaining unpaved distance of 5.5 miles will be secured by about January 1, 1919.

1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ii. 27 The sidewalk..was still unpaved in those days.

2003 A. Ronald Reader of Purple Sage i. ii. 24 Tonopah was a community of city people..who lived in roughboard houses and walked unpaved streets.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 29 It is a voyce in her eares which Horse-haires, and Calues-guts, nor the voyce of vnpaued Eunuch to boot, can neuer ame[n] d. View more context for this quotation