parquet

[ UK /pˈɑːke‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /pɑɹˈkeɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle
  2. a floor made of parquetry
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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
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