pavé
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French pavé (“pavement”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pavé (plural pavés)
- A paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
- A setting of gemstones such that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.
- Any of various food items having a rectangular shape.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]pavé (third-person singular simple present pavés, present participle pavéing, simple past and past participle pavéed or pavéd)
- To arrange gemstones in jewellery so that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pavé m (plural pavés)
- cobblestone
- Sous les pavés, la plage ! (May '68 slogan) ― Under the cobblestones, the beach!
- cobblestone street
- (geometry) parallelepiped
- pavé (rectangular food)
- (informal) thick, massive book; doorstop
- Synonym: brique
- (informal) screed, ream, long text
- Synonym: tartine
Derived terms
[edit]Participle
[edit]pavé (feminine pavée, masculine plural pavés, feminine plural pavées)
- past participle of paver
Further reading
[edit]- “pavé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French.
Noun
[edit]pavé m (invariable)
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]pavé m (plural pavés)
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