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Definition of Pargets
1. parget [v] - See also: parget
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pargets
Literary usage of Pargets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1913)
"... give her out to be none o' the clearest; whether she pay 'hem or no, heav'n
knowes ; and she's about fiftie too, and pargets ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"... She's above fifty-two, and pargets. B, Jam. Silent Worn., v, 1. So in Cynthia's
Revel», Phantasie prays, in their mock Litany, ..."
3. Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical by George Ellis (1811)
"The progress of improvement in building was from clay to lath and plaster, which
was formed into pannels between the principal timbers; to floors or pargets ..."
4. Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical by George Ellis (1845)
"... which was formed into pannels between the principal timbers ; to floors or
pargets (as Harrison calls them, ia parquets) coated with plaster of Paris ..."
5. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... Roof-tree ; and Britons lay, of hurdle-work, And sedges of the lake, thereon,
up, thatch. All brought now to good point, pargets the house, ..."
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