parquet
English
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)keɪ, -eɪ
Noun
parquet (plural parquets)
- A wooden floor made of parquetry.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[2]:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
- The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
- (historical) In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions.
- (historical) In some European bourses or stock exchanges, the railed-in space within which the agents de change, or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them, distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.
Translations
a wooden floor made of parquetry
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the part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle — see stall
Verb
parquet (third-person singular simple present parquets, present participle parqueting, simple past and past participle parqueted)
- (transitive) To lay or fit such a floor.
Derived terms
Translations
to lay or fit such a floor
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French
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Noun
parquet m (plural parquets)
- parquet (floor)
- (law, with definite article) the prosecution
- 2017 April 21, Julia Pascual, Elise Vincent, “Paris attaqué à la veille de l’élection présidentielle”, in Le Monde[3]:
- Le parquet anti-terroriste s’est rapidement saisi de l’affaire.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- M. le procureur général est au parquet.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Descendants
terms borrowed from parquet
Further reading
- “parquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Noun
parquet m (uncountable)
- parquet (wooden flooring)
- basketball court
- floor of the stock exchange
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
parquet m (plural parquets)
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