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Webster 1913 Edition

Parget

Par′get

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pargeted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pargeting
.]
[OE.
pargeten
, also
spargeten
,
sparchen
; of uncertain origin.]
1.
To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues;
as, to
parget
the outside of their houses
.
Sir T. Herbert.
The
pargeted
ceiling with pendants.
R. L. Stevenson.
2.
To paint; to cover over.
[Obs.]

Par′get

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To lay on plaster.
2.
To paint, as the face.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Par′get

,
Noun.
1.
Gypsum or plaster stone.
2.
Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
Knight.
3.
Paint, especially for the face.
[Obs.]
Drayton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Parget

P`ARGET

,
Noun.
Gypsum or plaster stone.
1.
Plaster laid on roofs or walls.
2.
Paint.
Parget is applied to the several kinds of gypsum, which when slightly calcined, is called plaster of Paris, and is used in casting statues, in stucco for floors, ceilings, &c.

Definition 2024

parget

parget

English

Noun

parget ‎(plural pargets)

  1. Gypsum or plaster stone.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.135:
      Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.
  2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
    • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:
      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. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.

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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 parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.
    • Sir T. Herbert
      to parget the outside of their houses.
    • Robert Louis Stevenson
      the pargeted ceiling with pendants
    • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:
      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.
  2. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

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