Pavé
Pavé , noun
[French, from paver to pave. See Pave.]
The pavement.
Collocations (1)
\'d8Nymphe du pavé , a prostitute who solicits in the street; a streetwalker. [A low euphemism.]
Also: Pave
Pave (pāv) , transitive verb
[French paver to pave, Late Latin pavare, from Latin pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; compare Greek pai`ein to beat, strike.]
1.
To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for vehicles, horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
With silver paved, and all divine with gold.
To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.
2.
Figuratively: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title.