parquet

• The first thing Maigret noticed was the floor—the parquet was as well polished as if it had been in a convent, and there was an agreeable smell of beeswax. —  Maigret in Montmartre - Georges Simenon - 64
• Dozens of captured battle standards hung from the ceiling The floors were beautifully parquet, where they weren't tiled, and then often covered with vastly expensive carpets. —  LeoA
• A magistrat means a Judge or a Public Prosecutor From being so much with the judges, I grew quite learned in French legal terms, talked of the parquet (which means the Bar), and invariably termed the grubby little Nyons law-court the Palais. —  The Days Before Yesterday
• Finish carpenters will write on the subfloor before they lay the hardwood parquet or the carpet pad.
• They'd want to protect his lower-class blood from staining their precious oak parquet, or make sure his working-class vowels didn't shock the ghosts that drifted so genteelly round the West Wing. —  EQMM,March-April2008

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