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- noun Ireland A
traveller , a member of Ireland'snomadic ethnic minority .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term "pavee", for Traveller, is of Shelta origin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Paris Roubaix is a great drinking game, basically you down a shot for every pavee section until GH crashes.
Bolts and Nuts: The Making of a Classic BikeSnobNYC 2010
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By the great king's particular grant they were buried in heaps in a part of Paris to this day called La Rue pavee d'Andouilles, the street paved with Chitterlings.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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By the great king’s particular grant they were buried in heaps in a part of Paris to this day called La Rue pavee d’Andouilles, the street paved with Chitterlings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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By the great king’s particular grant they were buried in heaps in a part of Paris to this day called La Rue pavee d’Andouilles, the street paved with Chitterlings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"bloomin 'pavee" into the mud beyond and it takes half the Belgian Army to help to heave you on to the "straight and narrow" path once more.
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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"bloomin 'pavee" while passing an ammunition wagon; a thing I had been dreading all along.
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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a Tommy in a lorry asking a haughty French dragoon to "Alley off the bloomin 'pavee -- vite."
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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