Pavement
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Description
A hard, smooth surface used for traveling. Pavement is made from cut stones, asphalt, concrete, brick, and cobblestone.
Synonyms and Related Terms
pavage (Fr.); pavimento (Port.); paving stone; paving brick; paving sand; road base
Authority
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 118
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000 Comment: paving sand