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Definition of Pargetting
1. Noun. Plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys.
2. Noun. Ornamental plasterwork.
Generic synonyms: Plaster, Plasterwork
Derivative terms: Parget, Parget, Parget
3. Noun. Ornamental plastering.
Definition of Pargetting
1. parget [v] - See also: parget
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pargetting
Literary usage of Pargetting
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 (1872)
"So in Cynthia's Revel», Phantasie prays, in their mock Litany, From pargetting,
painting, slicking, glazing, and renewing old rivalled faces, good Mercury ..."
2. Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods by Aymer Vallance, Malcolm Charles Salaman (1908)
"What very simple units the best patterns of pargetting are made up of, ...
pargetting was a method, indeed, which came into vogue somewhat late, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Construction of Chimneys ...: With an Accurate by John William Hiort (1826)
"The pargetting being removed by these causes, the mortar in the joints of the
brick-work becomes decomposed by the action of the cold air on the outside, ..."
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