Macadamize vs Unmacadamized - What's the difference?
macadamize | unmacadamized |
To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
(Webster 1913)
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Not macadamized.
*{{quote-book, year=1857, author=John Benwell, title=An Englishman's Travels in America, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The day, notwithstanding it was now October, was intensely hot (although a severe frost for two or three days before gave indications of approaching winter), and the streets being unmacadamized , had that arid look we read of in accounts of the plains of Arabia, the dust being quite deep, and exceeding in quantity anything of the kind I had ever seen in European cities: clouds of it impregnated the air, and rendered respiration and sight difficult. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1862, author=Lydia Howard Sigourney, title=Man of Uz, and Other Poems, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Rare, in these days, was the carriage, or stage-coach for the traveller; / Roads, unmacadamized , making rude havoc of delicate springs. }}
As a verb macadamize
is to cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.As an adjective unmacadamized is
not macadamized.macadamize
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