Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys.
- n. Ornamental work in plaster.
- n. A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls.
- v. To cover or adorn with parget.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. Gypsum or plaster-stone.
- n. Plaster; specifically, a kind of mortar formed of lime, hair, and cow-dung.
- n. Plaster-work; especially, a more or less ornamental facing for exterior walls, decorated with figures in relief or sunk in the surface; pargeting.
- n. Paint, especially paint for the face.
Wiktionary
- n. Gypsum or plaster stone.
- n. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
- n. Paint, especially for the face.
- v. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
- v. To paint; to cover over.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.
- v. To paint; to cover over.
- v. To lay on plaster.
- v. To paint, as the face.
- n. Gypsum or plaster stone.
- n. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
- n. Paint, especially for the face.
WordNet 3.0
- v. apply ornamental plaster to
- n. plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys
Etymologies
- Middle English, probably from pargetten, to parget, from Old French pargeter, parjeter, to throw about (par-, intensive pref. from Latin per; see per1 in Indo-European roots + 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; see per1 in Indo-European roots + iactāre, to throw).
Examples
“Unto the parget [3] on their side the which did never meet.”
“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.”
“The houses, _crépi_ or parget below and bamboo above, are mere band-boxes raised from the ground; the smaller perfectly imitated poultry-crates.”
“_I cannot_ parget _my own cause --- _ meaning, I cannot _whitewash, varnish_, or _gloss_ my cause.”
“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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