Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (UK Und.) the pathway, the pavement, usu. in the context of a prostitute’s ‘beat’ or beggar’s local zone.

1822		Egan Life and Adventures of Samuel Hayward 50: An hotel [...] distinguished for its life and fun, and visited by all the rum customers upon the pavé.
1826		Pierce Egan’s Life in London 20 Aug. 654/3: Catherine Gill, a bouncing young woman [...] well known on the pave of Tooley-street, was [...] charged with being a disorderly person.
1833		Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterboro’ Gaz. 24 Aug. 2/4: The ladies were soon obliged to abandon the major part of them, who are not strutting about the pavé.
1834		‘A Rum-Un to Look At’ in Libertine’s Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) I 136: She knows how to behave, / Though she’s out on the pave.
1841		Flash (NY) 17 Oct. n.p.: Every night she regularly beats the pave.
1842		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 8 Jan. n.p.: When they are enjoying a promenade upon the pavé, their dresses are of the most costly kind.
1846		Swell’s Night Guide 58: I takes my pitch last night on Fleet pave.
1849		Sam Sly 20 Jan. 3/1: Little Miss C—rt—s, of Charles-street, Stepney, is advised to discontinue her late evening walks [...] does she imagine when walking with an enormous hair dress improver, or with young B—tt, the flash, self-styled singer, that she is queen of the pave.
c.1850		Peeping Tom (London) 10 38/1: [of street walkers] Being obliged to [...] perambulate the pave of the Strand, Covent-garden, Piazza, &c.
1859		‘One of Themselves’ Am I My Sister’s Keeper? 301: [O]ur leading thoroughfares are become the resort of bedizened vice, and that children, young in years, but old in crime, should prefer tramping the pavé for lordly and genteel hire.
1862		Waterford Mail 15 Oct. 3/2: A Model Hero of the Pave — An itinerant pedlar named Daly [...] has been sent for trial [etc.].
1863		Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: Em Briggs [...] ‘pads the hood o’er the midnight pave’.
1905		F. Hutchison Philosophy of Johnny the Gent 43: [T]hem shines is standin’ around on the pave [...] tellin’ everybody who'll listen to ’em how they knocked ’em in a fit.
2015		67 ‘Take It There’ 🎵 Ten toes on the block with the gang hella times on the pave.

2. (UK Black/gang) the area claimed by a given gang.

2015

67 ‘Take It There’ 🎵 Make blood spill, not 'Gnac when I step on your pave.