parquet

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French parquet.

Pronunciation

Noun

parquet (plural parquets)

  1. A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:
      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.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
  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.
  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.

Derived terms

Translations

the part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle — see stall

Verb

parquet (third-person singular simple present parquets, present participle parqueting, simple past and past participle parqueted)

  1. (transitive) To lay or fit such a floor.

Translations

Alternative forms

French

Etymology

From parc +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paʁ.kɛ/
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Noun

parquet m (plural parquets)

  1. parquet (floor)
  2. (law, with definite article) the prosecution
    M. le procureur général est au parquet.
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    • 2017 April 21, Julia Pascual, Elise Vincent, “Paris attaqué à la veille de l’élection présidentielle”, in Le Monde‎:
      Le parquet anti-terroriste s’est rapidement saisi de l’affaire.
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Derived terms

Descendants

terms borrowed from parquet

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French parquet.

Noun

parquet m (invariable)

  1. parquet (wooden flooring)
  2. basketball court
  3. floor of the stock exchange

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French parquet.

Noun

parquet m (plural parquets)

  1. parquet
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