blacktop/macadam

David Bergdahl einstein at FROGNET.NET
Mon Dec 9 19:21:38 UTC 2002


My first father-in-law (b. Bavaria, 1899) used "colprovia" (which I had
always assumed was Germanic Kohlprovia--but a google search reveals it's a
kind of asphalt).  The term "blacktop" differentiates by color in comparison
with "white" concrete.
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