n.
Pavement made of layers of compacted broken stone, now usually bound with tar or asphalt.
[After John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), Scottish civil engineer.]
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Coming nearer and nearer to earth, I wondered if Colonel Boycott ever uses the word "boycott," and how strange it must have seemed to the late MacAdam to walk for miles and miles upon his own name, like a carpet spread out before him.The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard
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