The pavement.

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1835.  [They] throng the streets and line the outside of the pavé [at Natchez].—Ingraham, ‘The South-West,’ ii. 35.

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1843.  The pave was, of course [coarse], dust sometimes, sometimes mortar.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 75–6. (Italics in the original.)

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1843.  Our side-walk, for a mile, was paved with wood, not chemically, but mechanically: a line of hewed logs ran from the Colleges to the centre of Woodville. This pave was used in miry times—until anybody received two severe falls, after which he stuck to the mud-way of the vulgar road.—Id., ii. 306.

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1852.  [In St. Mark’s] we tread upon the finest mosaic paves we have yet seen.—S. S. Cox, ‘A Buckeye Abroad,’ p. 269.

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1857.  

        Along the dusty road,
  Along the granite pave,
A lean old horse is dragging his load,
  A patient and humble slave.
‘The Old Dray-horse,’ Knick. Mag., l. 383 (Oct.).    

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1859.  The law student aforesaid, was ‘out,’ and tripping rather daintily along the pave.—Id., liii. 331 (March).

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1889.  

        I fancy them on every pave in Rome
Toward the palace faced.
L. Wallace, ‘Commodus,’ Harper’s Mag., lxxviii. p. 192/1 (Jan.). (N.E.D.).    

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