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Patterned flooring made with wooden blocks
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parquet
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1816, "patterned wooden flooring," from French parquet "wooden flooring; enclosed portion of a park," from Old French parchet (14c.) "small compartment, part of a park or theater," diminutive of parc (see park (n.)).\n \nMeaning "part of a theater auditorium ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A wooden floor made of parquetry. vb. (context transitive English) To lay or fit such a floor.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN floor ▪ A sweep of light remained between frayed brocade curtains, without a gleam on the parquet floor . ▪ Great pale splotches appeared on the once-shining parquet floor where water had leaked in and stood in puddles. ...
Usage examples of parquet.
The parquet floor, the great wall panels, the allegorical ceiling dangling its chandeliers: all must be erected and connected, and suffusing and refracting golden light.
She and I worked side by side replastering the ceiling and staining the walls and putting a parquet floor in and building an altar and getting some stained glass to replace the old dirty windows and building a number of pews so that the room could actually hold about thirty people.
These private rooms were entirely different in their feel and style, with warm-coloured fabrics, wallpaper, carpets and Russian stoves, compared to the cold and stoveless public rooms with their parquet floors and marble mirrored walls.
Boldly I performed the chasse en avant and chasse en arriere glissade, until, when it came to my turn to move towards her and I, with a comic gesture, showed her the poor glove with its crumpled fingers, she laughed heartily, and seemed to move her tiny feet more enchantingly than ever over the parquetted floor.
Et il riait en arpentant sa chambre, dont le parquet craquait sous ses coups de talon triomphants.
A great Daghestan rug stretched along the parqueted floor, its faded colours repeated in the heavy draperies of the archways.
So electric was the occasion that Lady Claybody, finically proud of her house, did not notice that these two were oozing water over the polished parquet and devastating more than one expensive rug.
Floorboards black with age were either bleached and polished or replaced with gleaming new parquets, lovely Oriental carpets in pale pinks, tans, grays and yellow spread over them.
Finish carpenters will write on the subfloor before they lay the hardwood parquet or the carpet pad.
The Fairmont owners had alla-remodeled the top-floor hall-room with a gorgeous parquet wood floor and white silk-covered walls winking with little diamonds.
The door was opened into the corridor, and while Mother played her only waltz, Jimbo and Monkey danced on the splintery boards as though it were a parquet floor, and Rogers pirouetted somewhat solemnly with Jane Anne.
There was a strip of parquet flooring some sixty feet wide running down the entire length of it, which in turn was flanked by two slidewalks that slowly moved past the shops.
The slidewalks were no longer functional, and he began walking along the parquet flooring that ran down the middle of the Mall.
A small Bakhara rug was in the middle of the parquet floor, the calls wide planks stained to look like cherry or mahogany.
As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather-light, so danceth sleep upon me.