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Definition of Parquetries
1. parquetry [n] - See also: parquetry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parquetries
Literary usage of Parquetries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Acorn: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to Literature and Art (1906)
"Beyond the breath of Death and Doom Those fields extend their parquetries, Their
fine and mingled harmonies. Winged insects, monstrous or minute, ..."
2. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories (1862)
"The casements were marked in diamond parquetries across the carpet ; and I could
distinctly observe the gray shimmer of the mantel-piece, and shy gleam of ..."
3. Interim Report of the Commissioners on Certain Parts of Primary Education by George Handley Knibbs, John William Turner (1903)
"Varied designs of pavements, etc., engine-turned, frets, parquetries, class-room
furniture. January.—Circle, chord, versed sine. Centre of arc of circle. ..."
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