paviour

/ ˈpeɪvjə /

noun

1. a person who lays paving
2. a machine for ramming down paving
3. material used for paving

Word History and Origins

Origin of paviour¹

C15: from paver, from pave

Example Sentences

The paviours in the street below were taking their after-dinner nap with their heads on their empty food baskets.

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As if in imitation of the paviours of Cincinnati, portions of my Company now began to strike.

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So the whole city visited Swamp Spring en masse, From attorney to sweep, from physician to paviour, To drink of cold water at sixpence a glass, And learn true politeness and genteel behaviour.

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A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour.

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On that occasion it is said two English paviours in Fleet Street bet that they would pave more in a day than four Scotchmen could.

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