parquet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#PARQUETCategory:English terms derived from French#PARQUET parquet.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pä'kā, IPA(key): /ˈpɑːkeɪ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PARQUETCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PARQUET
- (US) enPR: pärkā', IPA(key): /pɑːɹˈkeɪ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PARQUETCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PARQUET
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PARQUETAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)keɪ, -eɪCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)keɪ#PARQUETCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)keɪ/2 syllables#PARQUETCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪ#PARQUETCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪ/2 syllables#PARQUET
Noun
parquet (plural parquets)Category:English lemmas#PARQUETCategory:English nouns#PARQUETCategory:English countable nouns#PARQUETCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PARQUETCategory:Pages with entries#PARQUETCategory:Pages with 4 entries#PARQUET
- A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.Category:English terms with quotations#PARQUET
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].Category:English terms with quotations#PARQUET
- The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#PARQUET) In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions; a procuratorate.
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#PARQUET) In some European bourses or stock exchanges, the railed-in space within which the agents de change, or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them, distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
parquet (third-person singular simple present parquets, present participle parqueting, simple past and past participle parqueted)Category:English lemmas#PARQUETCategory:English verbs#PARQUETCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PARQUETCategory:Pages with entries#PARQUETCategory:Pages with 4 entries#PARQUET
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PARQUET) To lay or fit such a floor.
Translations
Alternative forms
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From parc m + -etCategory:French terms suffixed with -et#PARQUET.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.kɛ/Category:French 2-syllable words#PARQUETCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#PARQUET
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#PARQUETAudio: (file)
Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#PARQUETAudio (France (Vosges)): (file)
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Noun
parquet m (plural parquets)Category:French lemmas#PARQUETCategory:French nouns#PARQUETCategory:French countable nouns#PARQUETCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PARQUETCategory:French masculine nouns#PARQUETCategory:Pages with entries#PARQUETCategory:Pages with 4 entries#PARQUET
- parquet (floor)
- (lawCategory:fr:Law#PARQUET, with definite article) the prosecution
- M. le procureur général est au parquet.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 2017 April 21, Julia Pascual, Elise Vincent, “Paris attaqué à la veille de l’élection présidentielle”, in Le Monde:
- Le parquet anti-terroriste s’est rapidement saisi de l’affaire.Category:French terms with quotations#PARQUETCategory:Requests for translations of French quotations#PARQUET
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Czech: parketa
- → Dutch: parket
- → English: parquet
- → Estonian: parkett
- → Finnish: parketti
- → German: Parkett
- → Hungarian: parketta
- → Italian: parquet
- → Norman: partchet
- → Macedonian: паркет (parket)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پاركه (parke)
- Turkish: parke
- → Portuguese: parquete
- → Romanian: parchet n
- → Russian: парке́т (parkét)
- → Spanish: parquet
- → Walloon: parkèt
Further reading
- “parquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from FrenchCategory:Italian terms borrowed from French#PARQUETCategory:Italian unadapted borrowings from French#PARQUETCategory:Italian terms derived from French#PARQUET parquet.
Noun
parquet m (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#PARQUETCategory:Italian nouns#PARQUETCategory:Italian countable nouns#PARQUETCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#PARQUETCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PARQUETCategory:Italian masculine nouns#PARQUETCategory:Pages with entries#PARQUETCategory:Pages with 4 entries#PARQUET
- parquet (wooden flooring)
- basketball court
- floor of the stock exchange
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from French#PARQUETCategory:Spanish terms derived from French#PARQUET parquet.
Noun
parquet m (plural parquets)Category:Spanish lemmas#PARQUETCategory:Spanish nouns#PARQUETCategory:Spanish countable nouns#PARQUETCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PARQUETCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#PARQUETCategory:Pages with entries#PARQUETCategory:Pages with 4 entries#PARQUET