Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not paved; not covered with stone.
- Castrated; gelded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not paved; not furnished with a pavement.
- adjective obsolete Castrated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a road or path Not having a hard, impervious surface; not
paved
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not having a paved surface
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Examples
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
The Waverley 1877
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of & straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley 2004
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a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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In suburban Bedford, N.Y., where the privacy of an unpaved road is mark of prestige, the best way to gawk at the homes of the rich and famous is on horseback.
Homes by Horseback 2011
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Dirt streaks on cars—a result of living on prestigious unpaved roads—are a status symbol.
Homes by Horseback 2011
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Dirt streaks on cars—a result of living on prestigious unpaved roads—are a status symbol.
Saddling Up to See Where the Wealthy Live Shelly Banjo 2011
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There's also dust, because the cars are driving over mostly unpaved roads.
Nathan Schneider: The Kabul Scarf: A New Year Reflection On The War In Afghanistan Nathan Schneider 2011
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