paven

plural pavens

1. alternativeAlternative form of pavane.

1. archaicnot comparablerarepaved

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

   1949, John Masefield, On the hill, page 18

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

   1897, F. Harald Williams, Matin Bells and Scarlet and Gold, page 104

   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.

   1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji, page 118

   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.

   2005, Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane, page 73