parquetn.

Brit.

/ˈpɑːkeɪ/, U.S.

/pɑrˈkeɪ/

Forms: 1800s– parquet, 1800s– parquette Brit.

/pɑːˈkɛt/, U.S.

/pɑrˈkɛt/ (in sense 2), 1900s parqué (irregular). Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parquet.

Etymology: < French parquet collection of blocks forming a floor (1664; compare earlier parquetage parquetage n.), (as collective noun) the public prosecutors (1694), the prosecutor's office as a judicial organ (1836; also 1830 in magistrature de parquet ), part of the audience in a theatre seated between the orchestra and the parterre (a1772), this part of a theatre (1796), (earlier in Middle French in senses including: part of a courtroom where the judges sit (1366), place enclosed with branches where one lures partridges to catch them (1376), small park for livestock (1525), panel (of an altarpiece, 1398)) < parc park n. + -et -et suffix¹. Compare parquet v.With the form parquette in sense 2 compare -ette suffix. With parquet floor n. at Compounds 1a compare (showing French parqueté , past participle of parqueter parquet v.):1809 Queen Charlotte Let. 7 Sept. in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1971) II. 423 The Parqueté Floors have been taken up with great Care. N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation as (paɹke·t) /pɑːˈkɛt/.

1. In France and French-speaking countries: the branch of the administration concerned with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime; (also) the office of a public prosecutor when not attending hearings.

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society > law > law enforcement > [noun] > department of administration concerned with

parquet1650

police1740

home office1795

1650 Briefe Relation Some Affaires No. 45. 665 This day sevennight arrived here a new Deputy of Bourdeaux, who repaired last Tuesday to the Parquet of the Kings folks (that is, of the Advocates and Attorney-General) to speak to the said Attorney General.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Sept. 6/3 The orgies reported last week as having taken place in a Paris restaurant have attracted the attention of the parquet.

1903 Speaker 19 Sept. 556/1 An unwise economy in the pay of the native Parquet or prosecuting body.

1958 L. Durrell Balthazar iv. 92 The Parquet have investigated as best they could.

1999 French Hist. Stud. 22 402 He also suggested that correctionalization be regularized rather than left to the whims of the parquets.

2. Chiefly North American. The ground floor of a theatre or auditorium; spec. the front part extending from behind the orchestra as far as the area beneath the galleries; seats in this area (cf. parquet circle n. at Compounds 3).

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > pit or ground floor

yard1609

ground1631

pit1649

ground-stand1659

cockpit1698

parterre1711

parquet1773

1773 R. Morris Diary 19 Sept. in Radical Adventurer (1971) 86 Was at a Concert. All the other nights at Plays where we pay a Golden piece for ye Boxes & Parquet.

1786 A. Becket Trip to Holland 79 At the usual hour I repaired to the Theatre, and took my seat in the Parquet.

1831 W. M. Thackeray Let. Aug. (1945) I. 154 How I long for the dear little Weimar Theatre where one could sit quiet & cozy in the parquet.

1848 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 34 Ladies..with their gay dresses, make what is the parquette in other theatres look like a bed of flowers.

1896 Daily News 10 Feb. 6/6 In New York the stalls occupy the whole of the parquet.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) i. 33 Who are those people down there in the third row of the parquet.

1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Mar. 15/1 Every seat in parquette, dress circle and gallery was occupied for the grand opening on Oct. 10, 1885.

1995 N.Y. Times 25 June xiii. 14/4 For this setting..—a tent smaller than the Met parquet level, let alone its balcony heights—the mikes were overkill.

3. Flooring composed of blocks of wood (or occasionally other materials) arranged in a geometric pattern. Cf. parquetry n. Now usually as a mass noun.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > types of

parlour floor1441

causey1481

pediment1747

working floor1747

parquet1814

parquet floor1819

subfloor1838

straight-joint floor1842

parquet flooring1845

working floor1850

dallage1856

nightingale floor1914

open floor1932

floating floor1934

1814 C. Capel Let. 1 Nov. (1955) i. 75 The Natives are so fond of their Parquets, or inlaid Floors.

1832 S. Austin tr. H. L. H. von Pückler-Muskau Tour German Prince II. xiii. 254 The large blocks of wood on the fire; the tile parquet,—all recall vividly to my mind that I am in France, and not in England.

1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 11 None such as these could cross the inlaid oak parquet of Lilliesford.

1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 62 Upon which Victorine looked coy, and began scrabbling with her toes on the parquet.

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night vi. 122 There was a big splash of paint on the parquet.

1969 Times 14 July 11/6 At the bottom of the hole you can see a lighted chamber floored with parquet.

2017 T. Peake North Facing iii. 39 Since he didn't want to spill anything on the parquet, once out of the lounge he paused to take a sip.

Compounds

C1. (In sense 3.)

parquet floor n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > types of

parlour floor1441

causey1481

pediment1747

working floor1747

parquet1814

parquet floor1819

subfloor1838

straight-joint floor1842

parquet flooring1845

working floor1850

dallage1856

nightingale floor1914

open floor1932

floating floor1934

1819 M. Wilmot More Lett. (1935) 20 Fruit and flowers dirt cheap—parqué flours—Carpits if you chuse to give a daughters dowery for them.

1948 H. V. Morton In Search of S. Afr. 231 Upon a parquet floor covered with lion and zebra skins stood Captain Potter.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Apr. 55/3 My office, with dark green walls, worn parquet floors, and a Juliet balcony overlooking the courtyard, had been a bedroom.

parquet flooring n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > types of

parlour floor1441

causey1481

pediment1747

working floor1747

parquet1814

parquet floor1819

subfloor1838

straight-joint floor1842

parquet flooring1845

working floor1850

dallage1856

nightingale floor1914

open floor1932

floating floor1934

1845 Art-union June 169/1 (heading) Wainscot and parquet flooring.

1901 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 4/2 Scottish tweeds are some of the herring-bone pattern;..others, again, what is called ‘parquet’, imitating a parquet flooring.

1995 First Home Buyer's Guide Winter 34/2 They point pridefully to the parquet flooring in the living room, ceramic tile flooring in the kitchen and case windows.

parquet work n.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [noun] > types of inlaid work

marquetry1563

tarsia1665

Tunbridge ware1773

stringing1812

parquetry1816

Reisner1833

parquetage1845

intarsiatura1863

tarkashi1878

parquet work1880

intarsia1894

Shibayama1928

seaweed-marquetry1935

1880 Times 23 Nov. 3/5 (advt.) Artistic house decoration, including gasfitting, repairs, parquet work &c.

1923 L. A. Turner in R. Dircks Sir Christopher Wren 104 The Consistory table,..measures 11 ft. 6 in. by 8 ft. It Cost £20 14s. Both have ‘Parkitine’, i.e. parquet-work tops.

1998 Akron Beacon Jrnl. (Ohio) (Nexis) 29 Nov. e1 She has obtained an extra-strong lacquer to preserve the parquet work downstairs.

parquet-floored adj.

ΚΠ

1933 Times 24 Nov. 11/1 The church is parquet-floored with Australian ‘karri’ wood.

2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 Sept. mo4 The tiled entrance leads to a parquet-floored formal lounge overlooking the front garden.

C2. (In sense 2.)

parquet seat n.

ΚΠ

1842 Daily Missouri Republican 31 May in W. G. B. Carson Managers in Distress (1949) vii. 184 The Parquette seats will be restored.

1919 A. Hornblow Hist. Theatre Amer. xxii. 174 Expecting a tremendous rush to hear these eminent artistes, the management charged three dollars for parquet seats.

1997 Jewish Exponent (Nexis) 25 Sept. 13 Even with the parquet seats empty, Wolfgang Sawallisch drew a sound that projected forward with..Chaliapinesque fullness.

parquet ticket n.

ΚΠ

1842 Chicago Amer. 18 Aug. Parquet tickets 50 cents.

1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Feb. b5 A gentleman's desk strewn with the desiderata of success: a cordovan briefcase,..parquet tickets for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

C3.

parquet carpet n. now rare a name given to wooden parquet panels; (also) a patterned or patchwork square of carpet.

ΚΠ

1874 Pall Mall Budget 22 May 2/2 (advt.) Wood Parquet Carpets, For Bordering or Covering Floors; cannot be worn out.

1883 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 4 Sept. 928/1 A parquet carpet consisting of pieces of matting cut from a piece, the cut edges of which are fixed by a glue or cement.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 605/1 The products of these two processes are well known under the trade-names of ‘Parquet Carpets’ and ‘Art Squares’.

1967 B. Bunting Houses of Boston's Back Bay v. 145 A reporter at the Paris Exposition of 1867 mentions precut parquet panels as if they were something new, and it is certain that parquet carpets, as they were called, were in extensive use by the time of the 1876 Philadelphia Bicentennial.

parquet circle n. chiefly North American the part of the ground floor of a theatre or auditorium lying below the galleries at the back of the parquet (cf. sense 2); seats in this area.

ΚΠ

1854 E. Thompkins Boston Theatre (1908) 15 Persons who purchase Tickets..for either the Parquette, Parquette Circle, Balcony.

1940 G. S. Bryan Great Amer. Myth viii. 181 Opening the little window that gave on the parquet circle, he saw the man crouched to the stage.

2000 N.Y. Beacon (Nexis) 10 May 4 A versatile and popular group of trained entertainers who are known to send their patrons wild on the parquet circle.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	parquet
释义	parquetn. Brit. /ˈpɑːkeɪ/, U.S. /pɑrˈkeɪ/ Forms: 1800s– parquet, 1800s– parquette Brit. /pɑːˈkɛt/, U.S. /pɑrˈkɛt/ (in sense 2), 1900s parqué (irregular). Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parquet. Etymology: < French parquet collection of blocks forming a floor (1664; compare earlier parquetage parquetage n.), (as collective noun) the public prosecutors (1694), the prosecutor's office as a judicial organ (1836; also 1830 in magistrature de parquet ), part of the audience in a theatre seated between the orchestra and the parterre (a1772), this part of a theatre (1796), (earlier in Middle French in senses including: part of a courtroom where the judges sit (1366), place enclosed with branches where one lures partridges to catch them (1376), small park for livestock (1525), panel (of an altarpiece, 1398)) < parc park n. + -et -et suffix¹. Compare parquet v.With the form parquette in sense 2 compare -ette suffix. With parquet floor n. at Compounds 1a compare (showing French parqueté , past participle of parqueter parquet v.):1809 Queen Charlotte Let. 7 Sept. in M. Berry Extracts Jrnls. & Corr. (1971) II. 423 The Parqueté Floors have been taken up with great Care. N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation as (paɹke·t) /pɑːˈkɛt/. 1. In France and French-speaking countries: the branch of the administration concerned with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime; (also) the office of a public prosecutor when not attending hearings. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > [noun] > department of administration concerned with parquet1650 police1740 home office1795 1650 Briefe Relation Some Affaires No. 45. 665 This day sevennight arrived here a new Deputy of Bourdeaux, who repaired last Tuesday to the Parquet of the Kings folks (that is, of the Advocates and Attorney-General) to speak to the said Attorney General. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Sept. 6/3 The orgies reported last week as having taken place in a Paris restaurant have attracted the attention of the parquet. 1903 Speaker 19 Sept. 556/1 An unwise economy in the pay of the native Parquet or prosecuting body. 1958 L. Durrell Balthazar iv. 92 The Parquet have investigated as best they could. 1999 French Hist. Stud. 22 402 He also suggested that correctionalization be regularized rather than left to the whims of the parquets. 2. Chiefly North American. The ground floor of a theatre or auditorium; spec. the front part extending from behind the orchestra as far as the area beneath the galleries; seats in this area (cf. parquet circle n. at Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > pit or ground floor yard1609 ground1631 pit1649 ground-stand1659 cockpit1698 parterre1711 parquet1773 1773 R. Morris Diary 19 Sept. in Radical Adventurer (1971) 86 Was at a Concert. All the other nights at Plays where we pay a Golden piece for ye Boxes & Parquet. 1786 A. Becket Trip to Holland 79 At the usual hour I repaired to the Theatre, and took my seat in the Parquet. 1831 W. M. Thackeray Let. Aug. (1945) I. 154 How I long for the dear little Weimar Theatre where one could sit quiet & cozy in the parquet. 1848 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 34 Ladies..with their gay dresses, make what is the parquette in other theatres look like a bed of flowers. 1896 Daily News 10 Feb. 6/6 In New York the stalls occupy the whole of the parquet. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) i. 33 Who are those people down there in the third row of the parquet. 1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Mar. 15/1 Every seat in parquette, dress circle and gallery was occupied for the grand opening on Oct. 10, 1885. 1995 N.Y. Times 25 June xiii. 14/4 For this setting..—a tent smaller than the Met parquet level, let alone its balcony heights—the mikes were overkill. 3. Flooring composed of blocks of wood (or occasionally other materials) arranged in a geometric pattern. Cf. parquetry n. Now usually as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > types of parlour floor1441 causey1481 pediment1747 working floor1747 parquet1814 parquet floor1819 subfloor1838 straight-joint floor1842 parquet flooring1845 working floor1850 dallage1856 nightingale floor1914 open floor1932 floating floor1934 1814 C. Capel Let. 1 Nov. (1955) i. 75 The Natives are so fond of their Parquets, or inlaid Floors. 1832 S. Austin tr. H. L. H. von Pückler-Muskau Tour German Prince II. xiii. 254 The large blocks of wood on the fire; the tile parquet,—all recall vividly to my mind that I am in France, and not in England. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 11 None such as these could cross the inlaid oak parquet of Lilliesford. 1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth (1906) 62 Upon which Victorine looked coy, and began scrabbling with her toes on the parquet. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night vi. 122 There was a big splash of paint on the parquet. 1969 Times 14 July 11/6 At the bottom of the hole you can see a lighted chamber floored with parquet. 2017 T. Peake North Facing iii. 39 Since he didn't want to spill anything on the parquet, once out of the lounge he paused to take a sip. Compounds C1. (In sense 3.) a. parquet floor n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > types of parlour floor1441 causey1481 pediment1747 working floor1747 parquet1814 parquet floor1819 subfloor1838 straight-joint floor1842 parquet flooring1845 working floor1850 dallage1856 nightingale floor1914 open floor1932 floating floor1934 1819 M. Wilmot More Lett. (1935) 20 Fruit and flowers dirt cheap—parqué flours—Carpits if you chuse to give a daughters dowery for them. 1948 H. V. Morton In Search of S. Afr. 231 Upon a parquet floor covered with lion and zebra skins stood Captain Potter. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Apr. 55/3 My office, with dark green walls, worn parquet floors, and a Juliet balcony overlooking the courtyard, had been a bedroom. parquet flooring n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > types of parlour floor1441 causey1481 pediment1747 working floor1747 parquet1814 parquet floor1819 subfloor1838 straight-joint floor1842 parquet flooring1845 working floor1850 dallage1856 nightingale floor1914 open floor1932 floating floor1934 1845 Art-union June 169/1 (heading) Wainscot and parquet flooring. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 4/2 Scottish tweeds are some of the herring-bone pattern;..others, again, what is called ‘parquet’, imitating a parquet flooring. 1995 First Home Buyer's Guide Winter 34/2 They point pridefully to the parquet flooring in the living room, ceramic tile flooring in the kitchen and case windows. parquet work n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [noun] > types of inlaid work marquetry1563 tarsia1665 Tunbridge ware1773 stringing1812 parquetry1816 Reisner1833 parquetage1845 intarsiatura1863 tarkashi1878 parquet work1880 intarsia1894 Shibayama1928 seaweed-marquetry1935 1880 Times 23 Nov. 3/5 (advt.) Artistic house decoration, including gasfitting, repairs, parquet work &c. 1923 L. A. Turner in R. Dircks Sir Christopher Wren 104 The Consistory table,..measures 11 ft. 6 in. by 8 ft. It Cost £20 14s. Both have ‘Parkitine’, i.e. parquet-work tops. 1998 Akron Beacon Jrnl. (Ohio) (Nexis) 29 Nov. e1 She has obtained an extra-strong lacquer to preserve the parquet work downstairs. b. parquet-floored adj. ΚΠ 1933 Times 24 Nov. 11/1 The church is parquet-floored with Australian ‘karri’ wood. 2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 Sept. mo4 The tiled entrance leads to a parquet-floored formal lounge overlooking the front garden. C2. (In sense 2.) parquet seat n. ΚΠ 1842 Daily Missouri Republican 31 May in W. G. B. Carson Managers in Distress (1949) vii. 184 The Parquette seats will be restored. 1919 A. Hornblow Hist. Theatre Amer. xxii. 174 Expecting a tremendous rush to hear these eminent artistes, the management charged three dollars for parquet seats. 1997 Jewish Exponent (Nexis) 25 Sept. 13 Even with the parquet seats empty, Wolfgang Sawallisch drew a sound that projected forward with..Chaliapinesque fullness. parquet ticket n. ΚΠ 1842 Chicago Amer. 18 Aug. Parquet tickets 50 cents. 1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Feb. b5 A gentleman's desk strewn with the desiderata of success: a cordovan briefcase,..parquet tickets for the Philadelphia Orchestra. C3. parquet carpet n. now rare a name given to wooden parquet panels; (also) a patterned or patchwork square of carpet. ΚΠ 1874 Pall Mall Budget 22 May 2/2 (advt.) Wood Parquet Carpets, For Bordering or Covering Floors; cannot be worn out. 1883 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 4 Sept. 928/1 A parquet carpet consisting of pieces of matting cut from a piece, the cut edges of which are fixed by a glue or cement. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 605/1 The products of these two processes are well known under the trade-names of ‘Parquet Carpets’ and ‘Art Squares’. 1967 B. Bunting Houses of Boston's Back Bay v. 145 A reporter at the Paris Exposition of 1867 mentions precut parquet panels as if they were something new, and it is certain that parquet carpets, as they were called, were in extensive use by the time of the 1876 Philadelphia Bicentennial. parquet circle n. chiefly North American the part of the ground floor of a theatre or auditorium lying below the galleries at the back of the parquet (cf. sense 2); seats in this area. ΚΠ 1854 E. Thompkins Boston Theatre (1908) 15 Persons who purchase Tickets..for either the Parquette, Parquette Circle, Balcony. 1940 G. S. Bryan Great Amer. Myth viii. 181 Opening the little window that gave on the parquet circle, he saw the man crouched to the stage. 2000 N.Y. Beacon (Nexis) 10 May 4 A versatile and popular group of trained entertainers who are known to send their patrons wild on the parquet circle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). parquetv. Brit. /ˈpɑːkeɪ/, U.S. /pɑrˈkeɪ/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle parqueted, parquetted; Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French parqueter. Etymology: < French parqueter (1680 in this sense) < parquet parquet n. N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation (pā·ɹkėt) /ˈpɑːkɪt/. rare before mid 19th cent. transitive. To provide with a parquet floor; to make (a floor, etc.) of inlaid work, esp. of wood; to decorate with parquet work. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > floor > floor with parquetry parqueta1684 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [verb (transitive)] > type of inlaying parquet1875 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1678 (1955) IV. 141 The roomes are Wainscoted, & some of them richly parquetted with Cedar, Yew, Cypresse &c. 1865 J. C. Bellew Blount Tempest I. 58 The flooring was parqueted very curiously, and so highly polished, that..it was as unsafe as ice. 1875 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land (1876) II. 277 We ascended a path greasy with drizzle, parquetted by negro feet. 1903 Times 4 July 11/6 The floor will be parqueted in oak. 1946 T. Dreiser Financier (new ed.) xxv. 184 The interior, divided into twenty rooms, was paneled and parqueted in the most expensive manner. 1982 Shakespeare Q. 33 235/2 A diamond-shaped, raked stage, its floor parqueted with large, rough planks. 2003 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 13 Apr. 16 I'm walking along corridors parqueted with multicoloured marble. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650v.a1684
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parquetn.

Compounds

parquetv.