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Definition of Paviours
1. paviour [n] - See also: paviour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paviours
Literary usage of Paviours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rudimentary Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles, Containing an by Edward Dobson (1850)
"paviours.—These are excellent building bricks, being sound, hard, well shaped,
and of good colour. They must not be confounded with paving bricks, ..."
2. The Statutes at Large: From Magna Charta to ... 1869 by Great Britain (1767)
"... paviours now employed, or hereafter to be em- the water ployed, ... appointed
paviours to fuch company or companies, give notice in writing to the clerk ..."
3. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"88 And that paviours shall take for the toise, containing seven feet and a half
in length, and the foot of Saint Paul [in breadth], two pence. ..."
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