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Pavian, n. and a.|ˈpɑːvɪən|
[f. Pavia name of a city of northern Italy (L. Ticinum) + -an.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Pavia or its people.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Pavia.
1856O. Jones Gram. Ornament xvii. 5 Our woodcuts, selected from the Piscina of the High Altar, furnish some idea of the general style of the Pavian arabesques. 1888W. Benham tr. Platina's Lives of Popes I. 260 John the Fourteenth, a Roman, or, as some will have it, a Pavian. 1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. iii. 62 In some of the Pavian churches an acanthus decoration is to be met with, consisting of a regular diaper or brocade pattern of palmette leaves. 1940G. F.-H. & J. Berkeley Italy in Making III. viii. 202 The Pavian student volunteers had occupied Colà. |