pament

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See also: pâment

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

See pavement.

Noun

pament

  1. 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!
  2. A street or roadway