Crossword clues for parterre
parterre
- Ornamental arrangement of flower beds and paths - rarer pet
- Share mistake and initially even Wall Street stalls?
- Leave before taking in rector's formal garden
- Theatre part
- Seats beneath the balcony
- Path-filled garden
- Ornamental arrangement of flower beds and paths — rarer pet (anag)
- First tier of boxes at the Met
- Auditorium section beneath the balcony
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parquet circle \Parquet circle\ That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.(w Parterre Wp) 2 A garden with paths between such flowerbeds. 3 A theater balcony, especially in an opera house; above the box seats, but definitely below family circle.(w Parterre (theater audience) Wp) 4 (lb en US New York) An apartment balcony.
WordNet
n. an ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern
seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies) [syn: parquet circle]
Wikipedia
A parterre is a formal garden constructed on a level surface, consisting of planting beds, typically in symmetrical patterns, separated and connected by gravel pathways. Beds may be edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging and may not contain flowers.
French parterres originated in 15th-century gardens of the French Renaissance often taking the form of knot gardens. Later, during the 17th century Baroque era, they became more elaborate and more stylised. The French parterre reached its highest development at Versailles; this inspired many other similar parterres throughout Europe.
The word parterre comes from the French par and terre and literally translated means “on the ground.” Originally, the term was used in the 16th century to refer to a formal ornamental garden, but by the mid-17th century, it was increasingly used to refer both to the ground level of a theatre where spectators stood to watch performances and to the group of spectators who occupied that space.
Although the word parterre originated in France, historians use the term interchangeably with its English equivalent, “the pit,” to designate the same part of the audience in England, present-day Italy, and Austria. While parterre audiences differed in social status, size, inclusion of women, and seating arrangements, they shared the characteristic of being noisy, often boisterous, interactive audiences.
Today, historians are divided over whether or not parterre audiences deliberately challenged political authority, what role they played in constructing public opinion, and if they contributed to the formation of a public sphere in early modern Europe.
Usage examples of "parterre".
The rain had lifted a little and the sun shone out on the bloom of the lovely parterre where the Marches profited by a smiling moment to wander among the statues and the roses heavy with the shower.
And to make matters worse, Petter was certain he could hear the sound of laughter through the powder smoke, as though the creature was mocking their efforts to harm it as it slowly alighted on the parterre in front of the East Wing.
The hedge, like the parterre, was badly overgrown or, where not overgrown, either uprooted or chopped downa hopeless tangle of hornbeam, whitethorn, privet and holly.
He went over to his study window and stood frowning out over the parterres and parklands of Swanholm.
Nicky knew from Anne that its intricate design dated back to the eighteenth century, including the parterres, those ornamental areas where flower beds and paths formed a distinctive pattern.
There was a small green lawn in the center of the garden, and this was bordered by shrub roses, the parterres were laid out on all four sides of the lawn, beyond the shrubs.
Beds of other old-fashioned plants were set in the parterres, as well as such herbs as hyssop, savory, thyme and rosemary, mingling with pinks, pansies, violas and cistus.
Pushing herself to her feet, she walked down the path between the parterres, endeavoring to shake off the past, to quench the memories.
At the Victoria port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: English, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trading vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas, and flower-boats, which formed so many floating parterres.
In fact, of the twenty rose-trees which formed the parterre, not one bore the mark of the slug, nor were there evidences anywhere of the clustering aphis which is so destructive to plants growing in a damp soil.
The drive opened out into a wooded park with a gaunt, battlemented mansion set amid the broken terraces and parterres of that saddest of all spectacles, an old-world garden run to wilderness and bathed in the red glow of the setting sun.
Als sie sich unter dem dritten Haus befanden, erklommen sie vorsichtig die Stufen zum Parterre, huschten durchs Foyer und gelangten nach draußen.
The undulating prairie, waving with flowers, lay spread out before them, more beautiful under nature's bountiful adornings than the most artistic parterre, park or lawn which the hand of man ever reared.
A modern dwelling and luxurious in everything that wealth could suggest for comfort, it stood in the midst of exquisitely kept lawns, with groups of trees, parterres of flowers massed in colors, with greenhouse, grapery and garden .
I noticed that the green plants kept nearer the top of the sea, while the red were at a greater depth, leaving to the black or brown hydrophytes the care of forming gardens and parterres in the remote beds of the ocean.