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Definition of Parget

1. Verb. Apply ornamental plaster to.

Definition of Parget

1. v. t. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.

2. v. i. To lay on plaster.

3. n. Gypsum or plaster stone.

Definition of Parget

1. Noun. Gypsum or plaster stone. ¹

2. Noun. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face. ¹

4. Verb. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. ¹

5. Verb. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parget

1. to cover with plaster [v -GETED, -GETING, -GETS or -GETTED, -GETTING, -GETS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parget

Literary usage of Parget

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

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"parget,*. Plaister laid on a wall. Golde was the parget; and the seeling ... -Minshew explains parget by mortar. Skinner conjectures that it is from an old ..."

2. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier (1862)
"See Cotgrave, in V. parget. And alfo the verb, " to new-parget a wall," ibid. It is often ufed, as Mr. Steevens has remarked, ..."

3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"... —arbcit, /. work in plaster of Paris, stucco-work; —arbeitet, m.plasterer; —artig, adj. resembling plaster; —bilb, n. figure or im age in parget-stone, ..."

4. Manipulus vocabulorum: a rhyming dictionary of the English language by Peter Levens (1867)
"66 35 Pardon, sb. 164 11 Pardon, v. 164 45 Pare, sb. a pair, 28 16 Pare, v. to lessen, 28 23 Parent, sb. 66 36 Parentage, sb. 11 40 parget, v. to plaister, ..."

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