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paving-tile A tile used for paving floors, yards, courts, foot-pavements, etc., often glazed, and sometimes bearing an ornamental design on its surface.
1426–7Rec. St. Mary at Hill (E.E.T.S.) 64 Payd for xjxx pavyng tyle..iijs. iiijd. 1573–80Baret Alv. P 194 Pauing tiles of diuers colours, finelie set with figures of birds, or other things, or hauing like pictures wrought vpon them. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 40 Paving-Tiles..are of several Sizes, viz. 6. 8, 10. and 12 in. square. 1771Woulfe in Phil. Trans. LXI. 126 The composition, which is used for making paving-tiles, answers very well. |