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Definitions of parget in various dictionaries:
noun - plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys
verb - apply ornamental plaster to
A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys.
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Some almost understand plaster on building |
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Mar 27 2011 The Times - Cryptic |
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plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys |
apply ornamental plaster to |
A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys. |
Ornamental work in plaster. |
A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls. |
To cover or adorn with parget. |
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Pargeting (or sometimes pargetting) is a decorative or waterproofing plastering applied to building walls. The term, if not the practice, is particularly associated with the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. In the neighbouring county of Norfolk the term "pinking" is used.* Patrick Leigh Fermor describes similar decorations on pre-World War II buildings in Linz, Austria. "Pargeted façades rose up, painted chocolate, green, purple, cream and blue. They were adorned with medallions in high relief and the stone and plaster scroll-work gave them a feeling of motion and flow."Pargeting derives from the word 'parget', a Middle English term that is probably derived from the Old French pargeter or parjeter, to throw about, or porgeter, to roughcast a wall. However, the term is more usually applied only to the decoration in relief of the plastering between the studwork on the outside of half-timber houses, or sometimes covering the whole wall.The devices were stamped on the wet plaster. Th |