pament

See also: pâment

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pauement, pawment
• (Late) pavment

Etymology

See pavement.

Noun

pament

1. Pavement: the hardened surface laid on top of the ground as in a street or the ground floor of a building.
   • c. 1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales, copied in MS Landsdowne 851. Republished in 1808-1879, Frederick James Furnivall (ed.), The Landsdowne MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, London: The Chaucer Society. p. 518, l. 1371-1372

     And in here faders blode þe[i] made hem daunce / Vppon þe pament god ȝeue hem meschaunce

     And they made them dance in their father's blood / on the pavement--God give them mischance!

2. A street or roadway