Unpaved

ppl. a. (UN-¹ l 8.)

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), P v. O Rome, I wepe not to see thy streetes vnpaued,… nor that the battylmentes fall downe.

1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., II. xviii. 51 b. A great and large place vnpaued.

1627.  Hakewill, Apol., II. vii. 123. The streetes of the citty lying then vnpaued.

1741.  trans. D’Argen’s Chinese Lett., xiii. 82. If most of its Streets were not crooked, narrow, rugged, and generally unpav’d.

1805.  Ann. Rev., III. 18. In Philadelphia the privies are unpaved.

1833.  M. Scott, Tom Cringle, xvi. We marched up through a hot, sandy, unpaved street.

1884.  Manch. Exam., 14 Nov., 5/6. The roads were all unpaved earth roads.

  fig.  1823.  Byron, Juan, X. ii. The mode In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose Through the then unpaved stars the turnpike road.

  b.  In allusive use: (cf. STONED ppl. a. 4).

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., II. iii. 34. It is a voyce in her eares which Horse-haires, and Calues-guts, nor the voyce of vnpaued Eunuch to boot, can neuer amend.