parquets

Noun

parquet (plural parquets)

1. 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
2. The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
3. (historical) In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions; a procuratorate.
4. (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.

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