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‖ pavé, n.2|pave|
Also 9 pavée.
[F. pavé, n. use of pa. pple. pavé paved.]
1. A paved street, road, or path: = pavement 1, 1 b.
on the pavé: see on the pavement.
1764in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) I. 272, I am in no danger of being on the pavé! 1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Nampont, The postillion..set off upon the pavé in full gallop. 1815Scott Paul's Lett. (1839) 287 The old dame of Babylon..is in some measure reduced to the pavé. 1849Thackeray Pendennis lxix, He has walked the Pall Mall pavé long enough. 1888Pennell Sent. Journ. 29 We went up pavé, and down pavé, and over long stretches of pavé..its vileness went beyond our expectation.
2. A setting of diamonds or other jewels placed close together like the stones of a pavement, so that no metal is visible. Hence attrib., as pavé-design, pavé-effect, pavé-setting.
1871Daily News 25 Aug., The stones surmounted with the legend, ‘Ni obliviscaris’ on a pavé of diamonds. 1903Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 4/2 The pavé setting makes a mosaic of the stones. |