Parquet Definition

pär-kā
parqueted, parqueting, parquets
noun
parquets
A flooring of parquetry.
Webster's New World
The art or process of making parquetry.
American Heritage
The main floor of a theater, esp. that part from the orchestra pit to the parquet circle.
Webster's New World
The entire main floor of a theater.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
To use parquetry to make (a floor, etc.)
Webster's New World
To decorate the floor of (a room) with parquetry.
Webster's New World
adjective

Made of parquetry.

Wiktionary

Origin of Parquet

  • French parquetry from Old French diminutive of parc enclosure park

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Parquet Sentence Examples

  • The peasants and house serfs carrying out the things were treading heavily on the parquet floors.

  • Procureurs-gnraux and avocats-gnraux are also attached to the parquet, or permanent official staff, of the courts of appeal.

  • His representatives are attached to each tribunal, and form the parquet under whose orders the police act in bringing criminals to justice.

  • The governor of Martinique, du Parquet, purchased it in 1650, and the French were well received by the Caribs, whom they afterwards extirpated with the greatest cruelty.

  • It doesn't have a parquet of inlayed wood patterns.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAR

Words Ending With

TETUET

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