Paven
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /peɪvən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Paven is a noun meaning Alternative form of pavane.
Meaning
Alternative form of pavane.
More Meanings
- (rare, dated or archaic) paved
Example Sentences
A paven road or gathered tax But partly yield him what he lacks.
Firm as a paven road sprang what had seemed a hearse, Meet to uplift the load of a great universe; […]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- pavens
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paled, pory, spavined, spavindy, papall, pervial.
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