cobbled

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cob·bled /ˈkɒbəld $ ˈkɑː-/ adjective  TTRa cobbled street is covered with cobblestones 〔街道〕铺鹅卵石的

Examples from the Corpus

cobbled• There was no phone number listed for the old seminary that opened on to a cobbled courtyard above the Praia Grande.• They walked through the barbican of the Rorim into the cobbled courtyard beyond.• Where the street broadened into a square, the houses were swathed in plumbago and bougainvillaea growing valiantly out of the cobbled pavement.• Nearby Newark is a picturesque market town with a cobbled square overlooked by buildings of architectural interest.• Le Palais, where the ferry docks, is an agreeable, unspoilt little town of ancient houses and cobbled squares.• The cobbled streets and the boulevards spoke to him, told him tales he thought he had forgotten.• He wandered an area of refrigerated warehouses with old dual-gauge tracks intersecting on the cobbled streets.• The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but still the cars choke the cobbled streets.

cob·bled adjectiveChineseSyllable  

street covered with is cobblestones Corpus a cobbled

cobbled
cob‧bled /ˈkɒbəld $ ˈkɑː-/ adjective
a cobbled street is covered with cobblestones

cob·bledBrE /ˈkɒbld/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkɑːbld/ 🔊 adjective(of streets and roads 街道和道路) having a surface that is made of cobbles 铺有鹅卵石的