Etymology 1
Noun
paven (plural pavens)
- Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”)
Etymology 2
From pave + -en (past participle ending).
Adjective
paven (not comparable)
- (rare, dated or archaic) paved
1897, F. Harald Williams, Matin Bells and Scarlet and Gold, page 104:Firm as a paven road sprang what had seemed a hearse, Meet to uplift the load of a great universe; […]
1949, John Masefield, On the hill, page 18:A paven road or gathered tax
But partly yield him what he lacks.
1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji, page 118:The architecture was bewildering in its multiform complexity: great, sleepy-lidded faces of stone gazed down from the eight-sided towers; fantastic dragon-hybrids writhed entangled coils above portal and arch; many-armed and beast-headed gods thronged the paven ways, lining entire avenues in rank on rank of carven stone idols so innumerable as to suggest pantheons as populous as dynasties.
2005, Sylvia Kelso, Everran's Bane, page 73:After Kelflase a paven road replaced the half-finished horse-track, another sick-bed project, but it was still not fast enough for the king.