What does paven mean?
Paven means Alternative form of pavane..
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/peɪvən/ · noun
Alternative form of pavane..
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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Paven means Alternative form of pavane..
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Firm as a paven road sprang what had seemed a hearse, Meet to uplift the load of a great universe; […]
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