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parget

Syllables: par·get/ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/US/ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/

parget verb: to coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.

Verb

parget (third-person singular simple present pargets, present participle pargeting or pargetting, simple past and past participle pargeted or pargetted)

  1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
    • parget the outside of their houses.1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC
    • the pargeted ceiling with pendants1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae
  2. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

Noun

parget (countable and uncountable, plural pargets)

  1. Gypsum.
    • Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 135
  2. 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.1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191
  3. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.

Forms of parget

Verb
third-person singular presentpargets
present participlepargeting
present participlepargetting
past participlepargeted
pastpargeted
past participlepargetted
pastpargetted
Noun
pluralpargets

Origin of parget

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.

Questions about parget

What does parget mean?
Parget means to coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
What part of speech is parget?
Parget can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce parget?
Parget is pronounced /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/ (US).
What is the past tense of parget?
The past tense of parget is pargeted.

Words near parget in the dictionary

  1. parge
  2. parge coat
  3. parge coats
  4. parged
  5. parges
  6. parget
  7. pargeted
  8. pargeter
  9. pargeters
  10. pargeting
  11. pargetings

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