parquet
UK/ˈpɑːkeɪ//pɑːɹˈkeɪ/
parquet noun: a wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
Noun
parquet (plural parquets)
- A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
- 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.1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
- 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,[…].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
- In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions; a procuratorate.
- 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.
Verb
parquet (third-person singular simple present parquets, present participle parqueting, simple past and past participle parqueted)
Forms of parquet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | parquets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | parquets |
| present participle | parqueting |
| past participle | parqueted |
| past | parqueted |
| alternative form | parquette |
Origin of parquet
Borrowed from French parquet.
Words formed from parquet
Phrases with parquet
Questions about parquet
- What does parquet mean?
- Parquet means a wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
- What part of speech is parquet?
- Parquet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce parquet?
- Parquet is pronounced /ˈpɑːkeɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of parquet?
- The plural of parquet is parquets.
Words near parquet in the dictionary
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