单词 | fairy pavements |
释义 | > as lemmasfairy pavements fairy pavements n. English regional (now rare) small fragments of stone remaining from Roman buildings or mosaics. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > others pennant flag1756 fairy pavements1787 Purbeck1833 coffin-stone1845 Penistone flag1878 1787 Archaeologia 8 364 Some small stone cubes..which the country people called fairy pavements. 1874 Notts. Guardian 26 June 8/4 Major Rooke, by comparing..‘fairy pavements’, which for centuries had been tossed from hand to hand, was led to believe in the existence of a Roman villa. < as lemmas |
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