Parget

/ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/ · verb

Meaning

To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues..

Definitions by Sense

1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
2. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.
3. Gypsum.
4. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
5. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.

Example Sentences

parget the outside of their houses.

the pargeted ceiling with pendants

Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.

Sapper insisted that the chimney was to be pargeted so he sent Jack out into the yard to meet the incoming milking cows.

Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.

The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.

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Word Forms

• pargets
• pargeting
• pargetting
• pargeted
• pargetted

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