pament
See also: pâment
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
See pavement.
Noun edit
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[i] 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!
- 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
- A street or roadway