pavé

Borrowed from Middle French pavé (“pavement”).

• Rhymes: -æveɪ, -eɪ

pavé (plural pavés)

1. A paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
2. A setting of gemstones such that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.
3. Any of various food items having a rectangular shape.

• nymph of the pavé

pavé (third-person singular simple present pavés, present participle pavéing, simple past and past participle pavéed or pavéd)

1. To arrange gemstones in jewellery so that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.

• EVAP, vape

• IPA^(key): /pa.ve/

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pavé m (plural pavés)

1. cobblestone

   Sous les pavés, la plage ! (May '68 slogan) ― Under the cobblestones, the beach!

2. cobblestone street
3. (geometry) parallelepiped
4. pavé (rectangular food)
5. (informal) thick, massive book; doorstop

   Synonym: brique

6. (informal) screed, ream, long text

   Synonym: tartine

• nymphe du pavé
• pavé dans la mare
• pavé numérique
• pavé tactile
• tenir le haut du pavé

pavé (feminine pavée, masculine plural pavés, feminine plural pavées)

1. past participle of paver

• “pavé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French.

pavé m (invariable)

1. cobblestone
2. cobblestone road

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pavé m (plural pavés)

1. (Jersey) pavement

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