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Definition of Parterre

1. Noun. An ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern.

2. Noun. Seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies).

Definition of Parterre

1. n. An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

Definition of Parterre

1. Noun. A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one. ¹

2. Noun. A garden with paths between such flowerbeds. ¹

3. Noun. A theater balcony, especially in an opera house; above the box seats, but definitely below family circle. ¹

4. Noun. (US New York) An apartment balcony. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parterre

1. a section of a theater [n -S]

Medical Definition of Parterre

1. 1. An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. 2. The pit of a theater; the parquet. Origin: F, fr. Par on, by (L. Per)+terre earth, ground, L. Terra. See Terrace. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parterre

partake partake in partaken partaker partakers partakes partaking partan partans partay

partays parted parted leaf partenope parter parterre (current term) parterres parters partes partes corporis humani

parthanatos partheite partheniad partheniads partheno- parthenocarpic parthenocarpies parthenocarpy

Literary usage of Parterre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cottage Residences: Or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage by Andrew Jackson Downing (1856)
"In the centre of this parterre we would place a sun-dial, or a vase upon a pedestal. ... The bulbs would bloom and give beauty to the parterre early in the ..."

2. Cottage Residences: Or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage by Andrew Jackson Downing (1856)
"In the centre of this parterre we would place a sun-dial, or a vase upon a pedestal. ... The bulbs would bloom and give beauty to the parterre early in the ..."

3. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"The parterre in its varieties of form; aspect; relation to the House. ... Another plan is to make a parterre close to the House, as a Garden altogether ..."

4. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"From something—um, you know, Dear, what I mean. Oh I rum! tum!! tum!!! my Geraldine. THE parterre I DON'T know any greatest treat FC ..."

5. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"... but where the object is to display a curious figure, to be seen from a point considerably above ih» level of the parterre, the beds may be formal of ..."

6. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"The parterre of Nancy, with figures walking. Thu Great Fair of Florence, engraved at Florence. 1620 ; sheets. The same subject, engraved at Nancy, ..."

7. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Étienne Montricla (1803)
"... of a parterre, situated before an edifice, the front of-which is CD, required the point in that front from -which the apparent magnitude of the parterre ..."

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