Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as parget, v. t., 1.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun construction A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word parge.

Examples

  • Happily as shown in much of Faerie Queen, given the necessity of civilising through violence, Spenser seems to have found violence aesthetically pleasing, & the poem in parge part a glorification of violence when employed in a worthy cause.

    Severed heads all in a row 2009

  • I don't think they're fakes in the sense that they're either glorified frisbees that someone tossed in the air and snapped pictures of, or sorry parge a seagull.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2006

  • They woul4 acknowledge, tint ifaefe deeds, foch as they arc, were numt with many imperfedaoos: And fa they fboiAl have * eaton to t*ke thence octarfoh a£ fcmnbitag, and decking to parge them* fcivcK by Ponancefor them*

    Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties 1677

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.