Crossword clues for parget
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parget \Par"get\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pargeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pargeting.] [OE. pargeten, also spargeten, sparchen; of uncertain origin.]
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To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
--Sir T. Herbert.The pargeted ceiling with pendants.
--R. L. Stevenson. To paint; to cover over. [Obs.]
Parget \Par"get\, v. i.
To lay on plaster.
To paint, as the face. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Parget \Par"get\, n.
Gypsum or plaster stone.
Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
--Knight.Paint, especially for the face. [Obs.]
--Drayton.
Wiktionary
n. 1 gypsum or plaster stone. 2 Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. 3 (context obsolete English) paint, especially for the face. vb. 1 To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues. 2 (context obsolete English) To paint; to cover over.
WordNet
n. plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys [syn: pargeting, pargetting]
v. apply ornamental plaster to
Usage examples of "parget".
Lung-Storage and -Pump Rooms via a pargeted tunnel hastily constructed by the TesTar Ail-Weather Inflatable Structures Corp.
The higgledly-piggledy line of the village houses with their uneven roof lines, crooked chimneys, thatch or slate roofs and pargeted or brick frontages, every detail deeply familiar, stood serenely unchanged.
It was surprisingly close to the lodge, but well screened by trees and shrubs, a fair-sized house with fine pargeting and black and white timber cladding.
At first he had identified the style as medieval European, but he decided that it was more like Tudor when he started along the lane that professed to be the main street, for there he saw older structures, whose beams had turned black and pargeting white.
Although he had no dark hairs growing round his wrist-watch, Hugh Pargeter had, in his youth, the regular features and slightly curled hair of young men who model knitting patterns.
Molly Pargeter, a woman of forty, whose hair was kept in place with difficulty, might have looked like one of the larger Graces in the paintings she admired had not her size caused her such embarrassment that she lowered her head and stooped a little as she walked.
The woman having lunch with Hugh Pargeter opened her eyes to an almost impossible extent.
Glebe and Pargeter, when his old father was alive, and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house.
From the expressions on the faces of his audience, which included the two Pargeter girls, it was impossible to tell whether they were listening to him or not.
Samantha returned with the youngest Pargeter, leaving a flurry of disappointed pigeons.
The Pargeter family, having discussed the matter all day, and, so far as the girls were concerned, perfected their wardrobe most of the afternoon, were surprised by the emptiness of the streets, not realizing that almost the entire population of the town was packed into the shell-shaped centre of the Piazza.
Signora Pargeter, is your father a fit person to take part in this ceremony?
Before she zipped up her bag she put in it, beside the book of matches, the photograph of Buck taken by the waiter by chance when the Pargeter family were having a drink in Siena during the first week of their holiday.
They drove on, roughly east, and in the distance they saw the Bishops Pargeter church tower, gray, square, and squat.
Because right about now Reacher is walking past the Bishops Pargeter church.