Pavement

Pavement may refer to:

  • Pavement (architecture), a floor-like stone or tile structure
  • Pavement (material), the durable surfacing of roads and walkways
  • Sidewalk, a walkway along the side of a road, in American English
  • Portuguese pavement, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal ("Calçada Portuguesa" in Portuguese)
  • Limestone pavement, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
  • Desert pavement, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments of pebble and cobble size
  • Tessellated pavement, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores
  • Glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action

Read more about Pavement:  Popular Culture

Famous quotes containing the word pavement:

    “Down in the street there are ice-cream parlors to go to
    And the pavement is a nice, bluish slate-gray. People laugh a lot.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I have often walked down this street before, but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before.”
    —Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)

    “The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,
    A chafing savage, down the decent street;
    And passion rends my vitals as I pass,
    Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.”
    —Claude McKay (1889–1948)