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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys.
  2. n. Ornamental work in plaster.
  3. n. A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls.
  4. v. To cover or adorn with parget.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cover with parget or plaster; ornament with pargeting.
  2. To paint; cover or daub with paint.
  3. Hence To gloss over; disguise.
  4. To cover something with parget or plaster.
  5. To lay on paint.
  6. n. Gypsum or plaster-stone.
  7. n. Plaster; specifically, a kind of mortar formed of lime, hair, and cow-dung.
  8. n. Plaster-work; especially, a more or less ornamental facing for exterior walls, decorated with figures in relief or sunk in the surface; pargeting.
  9. n. Paint, especially paint for the face.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Gypsum or plaster stone.
  2. n. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
  3. n. obsolete Paint, especially for the face.
  4. v. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
  5. v. obsolete To paint; to cover over.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.
  2. v. obsolete To paint; to cover over.
  3. v. To lay on plaster.
  4. v. obsolete To paint, as the face.
  5. n. Gypsum or plaster stone.
  6. n. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
  7. n. obsolete Paint, especially for the face.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. apply ornamental plaster to
  2. n. plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, probably from pargetten, to parget, from Old French pargeter, parjeter, to throw about (par-, intensive pref. from Latin per; + jeter, to throw from Latin iactāre, frequentative of iacere; see yē- in Indo-European roots) and from Old French porgeter, to roughcast a wall (por-, forward ultimately from Latin porrō; + iactāre, to throw). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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