parget
English
Etymology
From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/
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- Hyphenation: par‧get
Verb
parget (third-person singular simple present pargets, present participle pargeting or pargetting, simple past and past participle pargeted or pargetted)
- To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
- 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, OCLC 869931719:
- parget the outside of their houses.
- 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae
- the pargeted ceiling with pendants
- 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:
- Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.
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- (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.
Translations
to coat with gypsum
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Noun
parget (countable and uncountable, plural pargets)
- Gypsum.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.135:
- Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.135:
- Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
- 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:
- The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.
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- (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.
Translations
gypsum
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