paviour
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]paviour (plural paviours)
- Alternative form of pavior.
- 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 238:
- The ground beneath her feet is extraordinarily smooth, as near as cobble-stones can get to parquetry; she imagines an army of paviours patiently completing it like a jigsaw puzzle while the placid citizens look on.