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macadam
Part of speech: NounA pavement of crushed stone; crushed stone used for such a pavement.
Usage examples "macadam":- He did not know- for he had not seen it happen- that in that moment the slippery, leather- covered note- book had slid from his lolling coat pocket and had fallen with a sharp slap on the white macadam, skidded along and come to rest in the ditch. - "The Air Trust", George Allan England.
- London- the London of the 'sixties- noisy with hoofs and iron- bound wheels upon its cobbles and macadam, dark with slums that encroached upon its gayest ways, glittering with night- houses and pleasure gardens that focussed light till dawn, brightened as with clustered bubbles by the swelling skirts of ladies of the whole world and the half, was, though smaller, ignorant of electric light, and without half the broad spaces and great buildings of the London of to- day, still more sparkling and gayer in its effect because life was less hidden. - "Secret Bread", F. Tennyson Jesse.
- Coming to the jog in the broad macadam, they were striking off into the narrow road that led to the quaint old mill, long since abandoned in the forest glade beyond, when their attention was drawn to a motor- car, which was slowing down for the turn into Sara's domain. - "The Hollow of Her Hand", George Barr McCutcheon.