Meaning of paven | Babel Free

Definitions

paved

archaic, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Firm as a paven road sprang what had seemed a hearse, Meet to uplift the load of a great universe; […]”

“A paven road or gathered tax But partly yield him what he lacks.”

“The architecture was bewildering in its multiform complexity: great, sleepy-lidded faces of stone gazed down from the eight-sided towers; fantastic dragon-hybrids writhed entangled coils above portal and arch; many-armed and beast-headed gods thronged the paven ways, lining entire avenues in rank on rank of carven stone idols so innumerable as to suggest pantheons as populous as dynasties.”

“After Kelflase a paven road replaced the half-finished horse-track, another sick-bed project, but it was still not fast enough for the king.”

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