pedestrianadj.n.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 139 The rest moulded upon Lucretius's Splay-footed numbers, with some pedestrian spoilings [printed spoulings] out of Horace's Epistles.

1805 W. Roscoe Life Leo X I. Pref. p. xxii His diary [sc. that of Giovanni Burcardo = Hans Burckhardt] is written in a pedestrian and semi-barbarian style.

a1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan Ded. in Wks. (1833) XV. 104 Who wandering with pedestrian Muses, Contend not with you on the winged steed.

1888 Dict. National Biogr. XIII. 11/2 Crane's verse is of a very pedestrian order.

1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 60 In conversation I am naturally rather a pedestrian person.

1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool ix. 98 Without the little touches of roguery a cobbler is only a plain pedestrian thinker who can never scale the heights where fairies of every craft dwell.

1969 Listener 24 Apr. 587/1 Failing to live up to its sudden notoriety, the series has nothing else to offer: just another pedestrian crime yarn.

1989 Business July 81/2 Its central processing chip was pedestrian by the ever-accelerating standards of the PC industry.

2006 J. Jenkins Writing for Soul xii. 176 When I am criticized it is for pedestrian writing. Well, I am pedestrian, and I write for the pedestrian reader.

1641 in G. Richardson Irish Footman's Poetry (title page) The Author George Richardson, an Hibernian Pedestrian.

?1770 Adventures of Actor i. 3 He determined on returning to London; and accordingly set out in the character of a Pedestrian, his finances not allowing any other mode of travelling.

1791 J. Byng Diary 2 Sept. in Torrington Diaries II. 290 This celebrated Pedestrian has won his wager—he arrived in York on Wednesday..—and on Saturday at St Paul's London.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. i. 7 As happy as a pedestrian who had accomplished his thousand miles in a thousand hours.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 9/2 Professor Blackie in his younger years was a great pedestrian, and he used to boast that there was not a mountain in Scotland on top of which he had not been.

1935 H. W. Horwill Dict. Mod. Amer. Usage 226/1 The newspapers of the city complained that in Pennsylvania Avenue the grandstands filled the sidewalk and compelled pedestrians to walk on the pavement.

1958 Star (Johannesburg) 16 Dec. 6/7 Johannesburg drivers..want to turn right or left while pedestrians, with the robot in their favour, are crossing.

1993 Utne Reader Jan. 48/3 Photographs of the old downtown in its prime show mixed crowds of Anglo, black, and Latino pedestrians of different ages and classes.

2009 M. Bielaire & T. Robin in H. J. P. Timmermans Pedestrian Behavior Introd. i. 1 Another important application is the description of congestion caused by heavy flows of pedestrians and their conflicting movements.

1969 D. F. Horrobin Sci. is God iii. 24 Unfortunately, for the pedestrians, it is the dreamers who tend to steal most of the scientific glory.

1984 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 27 Sept. b15 All the noise and color drew passers-by, prompting Evans..to say that the office looked like it was going to be ‘pedestrian friendly’.

1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 July (Final ed.) c1 Today's planners have their own euphemisms; the Pike, said committee chairman Michael Hall, is not ‘pedestrian-friendly’.

2004 Transportation Res. A. 38 148 This design enables the formation of compact neighborhoods, which are ‘pedestrian friendly’.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma 78 Riding along the pedestrian-lined hedge.

1976 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 19 Sept. 23 c/2 Steady footwork over cobblestone streets and across pedestrian-lined corners can be aided by speedy easy-to-follow subway, ferry, and bus systems.

1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 4 May (Final ed.) e3 The unsuspecting bus driver nearly plows across a pedestrian-lined sidewalk.

1937 Daily Herald 21 Jan. 3/7 No pedestrian operated signals for crossing places.

1938 H. A. Tripp Road Traffic xii. 269 (heading) Pedestrian-operated signals. Signals fitted with buttons to be pressed by pedestrians desiring to cross the road are employed.

1997 Bakers' Rev. Sept. 102/1 Walter-Broadley Machines... Offers an extensive range of battery-powered, pedestrian operated floor cleaning machines including the Challenger series of scrubber-driers, power sweepers and a new and productive burnisher, the Tristar.

2001 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 25 May a3 Like the traditional lights, the in-pavement flashing lights would be pedestrian operated but are built into the crosswalk from one side of the street to the other.

1933 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 15 July 8/2 The estimated cost of the proposed pedestrian crossing as shown on the attached blue print map is $60.00.

1934 Hansard Commons 10 Apr. 170/2 The four principal proposals..are the speed limit in built-up areas, the test for new drivers, the establishment of pedestrian crossings, and the amendments..in the law of compulsory insurance.

1973 D. Miller Chinese Jade Affair xvii. 164 The light at the intersection caught us..and my glamorous chauffeur brought the little Fiat to a halt just a yard or so the wrong side of the pedestrian crossing.

1996 Daily Tel. 15 July 19/3 Only last week, while I waited patiently at traffic lights, no fewer than five cyclists rode into the cycle box, dismounted, pushed their cycles across the pedestrian crossing and then remounted.

1962 Listener 24 May 903/2 The pedestrian deck planned for the now abandoned project for a new town in Hook, Hampshire.

1995 Landscape & Urban Planning 33 270/1 Vehicles are excluded from the pedestrian deck but the character is exceptionally urban and, in parts, bounded by buildings.

1954 Arts & Archit. Jan. 16/1 The store buildings are separated by garden courts and pedestrian malls.

1977 Hongkong Standard 12 Apr. 2/7 Police turned the city's proudest avenue into a pedestrian mall for three hours, derouting traffic from 19 blocks of it.

1997 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 8 Jan. Eventually, the police withdrew after opposition leaders agreed to divert the crowds into a pedestrian mall.

1953 F. Gibberd Town Design v. 121 A system of pedestrian precincts as short cuts between shopping streets can be developed in a large centre.

1977 Belfast Tel. 24 Jan. 5/1 The police officers chased the gunmen through a pedestrian precinct into Water Street.

1993 A. L. Kennedy Looking for Possible Dance 50 She sat on an empty bench in a pedestrian precinct with pigeons beginning to gather about her feet, eyeing for crumbs.

2010 L. H. Kendig & B. C. Keast Community Char. iii. 87 A grade-separated pedestrian precinct, with the pedestrian level above the automobile street, is the most desirable structure for urban cores.

1933 Daily Independent (Murphysboro, Illinois) 20 Nov. 1/1 (headline) 500 seek 125 public works jobs Monday. Pedestrian walkway on New Hill.

1945 Roads & Bridges Nov. 95/1 The community adjacent to the sector protected by pedestrian walkways is a distinct beneficiary.

1980 Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 2 Apr. 5 Hikers, often three or four abreast, strode over the Brooklyn Bridge's narrow pedestrian walkway like so many troops on parade.

1995 Private Eye 8 Sept. 13/1 Bent is sacking 17 housing engineers—leaving the potentially lethal concrete panels suspended on towerblocks 150ft over pedestrian walkways uninspected.

2012 R. J. Galiza et al. in U. Weidmann et al. Pedestrian & Evacuation Dynamics 2012 1263 The pedestrian walkway was located between buildings hosting the event.