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UK
/pˈɑːkeɪ/
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[ US /pɑɹˈkeɪ/ ]
[ US /pɑɹˈkeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle
- a floor made of parquetry
How To Use parquet In A Sentence
- If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles. Times, Sunday Times
- The parquet in the salon is arranged in an escalier pattern, gleaned rather than ripped off from a medieval painting. Times, Sunday Times
- So I'm watching the basketball playoffs the other day, and notice that the parquet floor isn't at Boston Garden anymore. What's Next... Sponsoring Rivers and Runs?
- Kyle and Louis, their hosts for the night, were indeed upstairs, in a paneled private room, reached after a long and disorienting trek through the interior of the club, across parqueted dining rooms, past bars and rest rooms, up two half flights of stairs that bookended a golden little cigar lounge. The Deed
- The lounge is furnished with well-selected finds from local vintage shops, while the four subtly styled upstairs rooms all have shiny, polished parquet floors. South America: Perfect posadas
- If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles. Times, Sunday Times
- There was a worn Persian rug on the parquet floor.
- The floors, once covered with the finest parquetry, are unrecognisable, the blinds don't work, the light-bulbs drape from thin wires where lamps used to hang.
- Parquet flooring, white leather sofas, Picassos on the wall and gold everywhere; the room was reverential, a monument to tastelessness. THE RHYTHM SECTION
- I point out all period details from original parquet floors to architectural detail such as columns, beams and high ceilings. The Sun