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parquet .
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- noun See
parquet .
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- noun Alternative form of
parquet .
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Examples
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“My chief allies, with three auxiliaries, were at hand, in the parquette,” he recalled in Roughing It, were “all sitting together, all armed with bludgeons, and all ready to make an onslaught upon the feeblest joke that might show its head.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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“My chief allies, with three auxiliaries, were at hand, in the parquette,” he recalled in Roughing It, were “all sitting together, all armed with bludgeons, and all ready to make an onslaught upon the feeblest joke that might show its head.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Stepan carried her into the drawing-room, and put her down on the parquette floor.
Mumu 2006
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Not only were the galleries, parquette and lobbies filled with blouses, but the boxes were glittering with a perfect galaxy of fashion, loveliness and rank.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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From side-scene to dome, and from gallery after gallery to the gay parquette, glitters the bright, shining audience.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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This done, the old man, to the merriment of certain wags who delight to speculate on his childlike credulity, takes a seat in the parquette, wipes clean his venerable spectacles, and placing them methodically over his eyes, forms a unique picture in the foreground of the audience.
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Mullholland, and sits at his side in the parquette.
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It was a mite of a house; on a rough calculation thirty feet by twenty; a double tier of boxes; a parquette about twelve feet square; and a stage of about two-thirds that size.
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille
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Caper, seated one night in the parquette of the Metastasio, had at his side a French infantry soldier.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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The amphitheatre bent above the parquette its garland of diamonds, hair, gauze, and satin.
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