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Middle English
Etymology
See pavement.
Noun
pament
- Pavement: the hardened surface laid on top of the ground as in a street or the ground floor of a building.
- c. 1410, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales, copied in MS Landsdowne 851. Republished in 1808-1879, Frederick James Furnivall (ed.), The Landsdowne MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, London: The Chaucer Society. p. 518, l. 1371-1372
And in here faders blode þe made hem daunce / Vppon þe pament god ȝeue hem meschaunce- And they made them dance in their father's blood / on the pavement--God give them mischance!
- A street or roadway