Pavement

Pavement may refer to:

  • Pavement (architecture), a floor-like stone or tile structure
  • Pavement (material), the durable surfacing of roads and walkways
  • Sidewalk, a walkway along the side of a road, in American English
  • Portuguese pavement, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal ("Calçada Portuguesa" in Portuguese)
  • Limestone pavement, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
  • Desert pavement, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments of pebble and cobble size
  • Tessellated pavement, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores
  • Glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action

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Famous quotes containing the word pavement:

    The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,
    A chafing savage, down the decent street;
    And passion rends my vitals as I pass,
    Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.
    Claude McKay (1889–1948)

    Down in the street there are ice-cream parlors to go to
    And the pavement is a nice, bluish slate-gray. People laugh a lot.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Along the pavement my footsoles
    Trod warily on living coals.
    Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)