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parget

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9
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6
Pronunciation
/ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/
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/ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/ · /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/

Definition of parget

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
    “parget the outside of their houses.”
    “the pargeted ceiling with pendants”
    “Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.”
    “Sapper insisted that the chimney was to be pargeted so he sent Jack out into the yard to meet the incoming milking cows.”
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verb

  1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
    “parget the outside of their houses.”
    “the pargeted ceiling with pendants”
    “Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.”
    “Sapper insisted that the chimney was to be pargeted so he sent Jack out into the yard to meet the incoming milking cows.”
  2. (obsolete)To paint; to cover over.

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Gypsum.
    “Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
    “The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.”
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Paint, especially for the face.

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Etymology

From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.

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