parget

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)
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par=get

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun parget has 1 sense

Verb parget has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

pargetv. t. [OE. pargeten, also spargeten, sparchen; of uncertain origin.].
  •  To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.  Sir T. Herbert.  [1913 Webster]
    "The pargeted ceiling with pendants."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To paint; to cover over.  [1913 Webster]
pargetv. i. 
  •  To lay on plaster.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To paint, as the face.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]
pargetn. 
  •  Gypsum or plaster stone.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Paint, especially for the face.  Drayton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parget, v. & n.
--v.tr. (pargeted, pargeting)
1 plaster (a wall etc.) esp. with an ornamental pattern.
2 roughcast.
--n.
1 plaster applied in this way; ornamental plasterwork.
2 roughcast.

Etymology
ME f. OF pargeter, parjeter f. par all over + jeter throw

THESAURUS

parget

apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, brush on paint, calcimine, cement, coat, color, complexion, concrete, cover, dab, daub, deep-dye, dip, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, face, fast-dye, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, grout, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lay on color, mastic, mortar, paint, pigment, plaster, prime, roughcast, shade, shadow, shellac, slop on paint, smear, stain, stipple, stucco, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, undercoat, varnish, wash, whitewash

ROGET THESAURUS

parget

Covering

VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.


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