Crossword clues for parquet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parquet \Par*quet"\ (p[aum]r*k[=a]" or p[aum]r*k[e^]t"), n. [F. See Parquetry.]
A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.
Same as Parquetry.
In various European public bourses, the railed-in space within which the ``agents de change,'' or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them; -- distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.
In most European countries, the branch of the administrative government which is charged with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime, representing the public and not the individual injured.
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 at the front of the ground floor" is first recorded 1848. The noun use in English has been influenced by the verb (attested from 1640s, from French parqueter. Related: Parquetry
Wiktionary
n. A wooden floor made of parquetry. vb. (context transitive English) To lay or fit such a floor.
WordNet
n. a floor made of parquetry [syn: parquet floor]
seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle
Wikipedia
The parquet is the office of the prosecution, in some countries, responsible for presenting legal cases at criminal trials against individuals or parties suspected of breaking the law.
The word literally means " wooden floor"; this is because, as opposed to the judges, who sit on an elevated platform during trials, the prosecution pleads standing on the floor. This also explains why the judges are sometimes referred to as "sitting magistrates" (magistrature assise) or "magistrates of the bench" (magistrats du siège) while the prosecutors are sometimes referred to as "standing magistrates" (magistrature debout).
In France, the parquet général is the public prosecutor's office of the appellate court ( cour d'appel) or the Supreme Court ( Cour de Cassation).
In Brazil, the prosecutor's office, the "Public Ministry" ( Ministério Público), is metonymically referred to as the parquet.
In Romania, the prosecutor's office is also called the parchet .
In Dutch, the word parquet is translated as parket and it is also used to generally refer to the "Public Ministry" ( Openbaar Ministerie).
Category:French words and phrases Category:French legal terms
Parquet may refer to:
- Parquet, a type of wooden flooring
- Parquet (legal), the office for legal prosecution in some countries
- Apache Parquet (computing), a columnar data file format
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.