Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys.
- noun Ornamental work in plaster.
- noun A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls.
- transitive verb To cover or adorn with parget.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with parget or plaster; ornament with pargeting.
- To paint; cover or daub with paint.
- Hence To gloss over; disguise.
- To cover something with parget or plaster.
- To lay on paint.
- noun Gypsum or plaster-stone.
- noun Plaster; specifically, a kind of mortar formed of lime, hair, and cow-dung.
- noun Plaster-work; especially, a more or less ornamental facing for exterior walls, decorated with figures in relief or sunk in the surface; pargeting.
- noun Paint, especially paint for the face.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To lay on plaster.
- intransitive verb obsolete To paint, as the face.
- transitive verb To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.
- transitive verb obsolete To paint; to cover over.
- noun Gypsum or plaster stone.
- noun Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
- noun obsolete Paint, especially for the face.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Gypsum orplaster stone. - noun Plaster, as for lining the interior of
flues , or forstuccowork . - noun obsolete
Paint , especially for the face. - verb To coat with parget; to plaster, as
walls , or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. - verb obsolete To paint; to cover over.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb apply ornamental plaster to
- noun plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Within their doors also, such as are of ability do oft make their floors and parget of fine alabaster burned, which they call plaster of Paris, whereof in some places we have great plenty, and that very profitable against the rage of fire.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Unto the parget [3] on their side the which did never meet.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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Within their doors also, such as are of ability do oft make their floors and parget of fine alabaster burned, which they call plaster of Paris, whereof in some places we have great plenty, and that very profitable against the rage of fire.
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The houses, _crépi_ or parget below and bamboo above, are mere band-boxes raised from the ground; the smaller perfectly imitated poultry-crates.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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_I cannot_ parget _my own cause --- _ meaning, I cannot _whitewash, varnish_, or _gloss_ my cause.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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A stroll through the California State Capitol (10th and L Streets; 916-324-0333; www. capitolmuseum.ca.gov) - a neo-Classical confection of Corinthian and other classic columns, parget plasterwork and mosaic floors - makes everything feel like it's in grand order.
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