How To Use Parquet In A Sentence
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If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles.
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The parquet in the salon is arranged in an escalier pattern, gleaned rather than ripped off from a medieval painting.
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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?
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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
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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
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If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles.
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There was a worn Persian rug on the parquet floor.
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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.
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Parquet flooring, white leather sofas, Picassos on the wall and gold everywhere; the room was reverential, a monument to tastelessness.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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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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A rectangular parquet table sat before a wall of windows, and a silk flower arrangement exploded with color on a bombé chest.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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When sanding parquet, block, herringbone and similar flooring, it is necessary to cross the grain of many pieces with each pass.
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Because the proportions are good and the original fireplaces and parquet flooring are still intact, it didn't need much structural alteration.
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I went on tiptoe across the parquet flooring and grasped the embossed stem of the sacred cup.
Seminary Boy
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Across the hall is an elegant dining room, also with original oak parquet flooring, while the lounge has another gas fireplace as well as a window seat overlooking the front garden.
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The lounges and dining rooms are immensely pretty, with parquet floors, pastel walls, white stucco decorative mouldings and painted rococo ceilings in the Tiepolo style.
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The rooms have exposed brick walls, wood panels and parquet floors.
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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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Rooms are just as elegant thanks to marble baths, parquet floors and Venetian chandeliers.
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Of the five rooms, the three main suites are the ones to go for, with their parquet flooring and arched windows.
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Stripped parquet floors, white furniture and a restored fireplace all feature.
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A dog-leg staircase which has the original wrought-iron railing leads to the first floor landing with herringbone parquet flooring.
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With five bedrooms and two reception rooms, it has high ceilings, parquet floors and feature fireplaces.
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The interior, divided into twenty rooms, was paneled and parqueted in the most expensive manner for homes of that day.
The Financier
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Stacey and Jaycob followed the pair onto the dance floor: a wooden parquetry.
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Anyway as I was doing it I knocked a glass lamp from a small table and it smashed to tiny pieces on the parquet floor, it made a huge bang.
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The living room is immediately to the left inside the hall and it has parquet flooring and a cast-iron fireplace.
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If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles.
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The rooms, with high ceilings and parquet floors, have been furnished with flair by the owner, Otto Wiesenthal, and are hung with contemporary art from his private collection.
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The light and airy salons have parquet floors and antiques.
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Because the proportions are good and the original fireplaces and parquet flooring are still intact, it didn't need much structural alteration.
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Chilled as by an icy mantle that fell on our shoulders, we went through ante-rooms, drawing-rooms opening one out of the other, with carpetless parquet floors, and furnished with such splendid antiquities as from thence would find their way to the curiosity dealers.
Honorine
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Importer , Exporter & Manufacturer of Burma Teak Parquet & Strip Flooring Timber , Teak logs.
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The parquet floors were polished to a rich gleam and the new swimming pool sparkled in the garden.
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Can't sleep unless a minion is doing wheelies on a dirt bike up and down the parqueted hall?
Okay, Karl, Just This Once - A Dress A Day
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The parquet floors were polished to a rich gleam and the new swimming pool sparkled in the garden.
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There was a huge, king-sized, wrought-iron bed in the middle of the room and a purple flokati rug on the parquet floors.
Color Me Grey
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The house is accessed via a tiled porch, beyond which the L-shaped hallway includes parquet flooring, ceiling coving and understairs storage.
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The parquet floors were as shiny and the big bronze doors as big as he had said.
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In its glory days, Land's End was said to feature marble, parquet and wide wood-planked floors, Palladian windows and hand-painted wallpaper.
N.Y. mansion linked to 'Great Gatsby' being razed
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The light and airy salons have parquet floors and antiques.
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The French parquet is always more or less dusty, although infinitely superior in point of cleanliness and healthiness to our absorbent floor.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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The sitting room is spacious, features parquet flooring and has windows to three aspects, with views of the city walls.
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This includes money spent on fitting carpets, laying parquet flooring, installing new electrical lighting, fitting a new bathroom suite and installing a new kitchen.
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Ask for a table in the ground-floor polished oak panelled bar with its open fireplace and parquet floor.
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Chris then pushed back his chair with a violent screech as it scraped the parquetry, and stood up to his full height.
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Many of the floors are parquet or other forms of wooden flooring.
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The room is a feast of gilt and opulent yellow-patterned fabrics, and it has a floor of aged, biscuit-brown polished wood rather than the almost inescapable blond parquet.
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The lounges and dining rooms are immensely pretty, with parquet floors, pastel walls, white stucco decorative mouldings and painted rococo ceilings in the Tiepolo style.
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The parquet floor was left raw, showing off Its rich patina.
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A low table - only calf-high - filled the center of the room; oak, it looked like, with parquetry designs inlaid in the surface.
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It has solid oak parquet floors and a courtyard garden.
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Each day the bewildered, distressed young woman who sat with Barnes in the dim "parquet," whispered in his ear:
Green Fancy
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In the parqueted dining room this small house, remarkable for its extreme cleanliness
War and Peace
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They occupied the house and made fires on the parquet floors.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Stripped parquet floors, white furniture and a restored fireplace all feature.
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The rooms have exposed brick walls, wood panels and parquet floors.
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The result is the most fabulous and hysterical routine to grace the Dancing parquet in 13 seasons.
Top Moments: Mother's Baby Bombshell, Late Night's Musical Burn
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The 24 bedrooms range from vast suites with parquet floors and rococo furniture to cosy single rooms.
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Ramps on both sides drop to parquetry floored galleries that provide increased height for the display of QUT's impressive collection.
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The couple say they were drawn to the home's original architectural details, which were largely kept intact, including the moldings, woodwork, doors and inlaid parquet floors.
Double-Renovated Townhouse
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The 24 bedrooms range from vast suites with parquet floors and rococo furniture to cosy single rooms.
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No two rooms are the same, but expect high ceilings, parquet floors and flashes of colour or oversized pictures on feature walls.
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The parquet floors were polished to a rich gleam and the new swimming pool sparkled in the garden.
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They occupied the house and made fires on the parquet floors.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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It has parquet flooring, a fitted kitchen, two bathrooms and solar panels.
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I went on tiptoe across the parquet flooring and grasped the embossed stem of the sacred cup.
Seminary Boy
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The most popular styles of hardwood flooring are parquet, strip and plank.
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It has a recently refurbished lounge, including a period fireplace and parquet flooring.
The Sun
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Bobby began his working life scalping tickets to Boston Celtics games and ended up buying the hallowed parquet floor of the Boston Garden before it was torn down.
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The ground floor public rooms have parquet flooring with turkey-red Axminster carpet tile squares or strips.
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The ballroom was turned into a kitchen, with a robust oak parquet that will only improve with the hammering it receives from energetic youngsters.
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Garnett dropped to the parquet and kissed the leprechaun at center court, then found Hall of Famer Bill Russell for a long embrace.
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The sitting room is spacious, features parquet flooring and has windows to three aspects, with views of the city walls.
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The family bathroom has a parquet floor and panelled walls as well as a sauna and bath with shower attachment.
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A dog-leg staircase which has the original wrought-iron railing leads to the first floor landing with herringbone parquet flooring.
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An ornamental sink, parquet flooring and solid wood units at eye and floor level are features of this cosy room.
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Only marginally smaller than the lounge and with a similar bay window that also has stained glass leaded panels, the sitting room has another ornate marble fireplace with a coal-effect gas fire and oak parquet flooring.
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A sweep of light remained between frayed brocade curtains, without a gleam on the parquet floor.
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Only if it really fabulous, with high ceilings or original parquet flooring, will people pay more.
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The 24 bedrooms range from vast suites with parquet floors and rococo furniture to cosy single rooms.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we were peeling off the carpet in the sitting room we discovered the original parquet floor, which was in good condition.
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Michael hissed, pulling me down to the parquet.
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He also retained the herringbone parquet flooring and double-height sash windows, blending the existing elements of the building with sumptuous fabrics and walnut panelling.
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The light and airy salons have parquet floors and antiques.
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Usually this didn't matter because the Parquet confined itself to criminal offences and there was no religious dimension involved.
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And I'd swear that it was in a brown parquetry veneer bowl.
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Because the proportions are good and the original fireplaces and parquet flooring are still intact, it didn't need much structural alteration.
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It has parquet flooring, a fitted kitchen, two bathrooms and solar panels.
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It is finished to high standards with parquet flooring throughout, gypsum walls and ceilings, air conditioning and triple glazing.
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An ocean of polished parquet flooring stood between the stairs and the front door.
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Avodir well cuttable and cleavable, can well be nailed, screwed and glued as well as stained and varnished, hard to impregnate, susceptible to wood pests, especially to blue stain, not weather-proof causes occasionally irritations of the mucosa preferably for making sliced veneer, but also for parquet, panelling and in furniture construction
1. Wood
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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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The entrance hall with open tread staircase and polished parquet flooring leads to a drawing room and bar area with a beamed ceiling and a timber floor.
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When we were peeling off the carpet in the sitting room we discovered the original parquet floor, which was in good condition.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of the five rooms, the three main suites are the ones to go for, with their parquet flooring and arched windows.
Times, Sunday Times
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A rectangular parquet table sat before a wall of windows, and a silk flower arrangement exploded with color on a bombé chest.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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The parquet floors were as shiny and the big bronze doors as big as he had said.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only if it really fabulous, with high ceilings or original parquet flooring, will people pay more.
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From being so much with the judges, I grew quite learned in French legal terms, talked of the parquet (which means the Bar), and invariably termed the grubby little Nyons law-court the Palais.
The Days Before Yesterday
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It has a recently refurbished lounge, including a period fireplace and parquet flooring.
The Sun
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The most popular styles of hardwood flooring are parquet, strip and plank.
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I spend most of our conversation fearful of dropping it on her parquet floor.
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Approached via raised brick beds and gravel, the front door opens onto a small entrance hall floored in light-coloured parquet.
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With five bedrooms and two reception rooms, it has high ceilings, parquet floors and feature fireplaces.
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As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather – light, so — danceth sleep upon me.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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Not bad, eh?" said Luzi, waving a hand over the parquet flooring, new washing machine, dishwasher and refrigerator in the kitchen-diner of the two-bedroom flat.
The Guardian World News
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If you can't afford parquet wood flooring, fake it with porcelain tiles.
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Wood grain and parquetry are abbreviated using forceful umber lines.
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The ceilings have fantastic mouldings, the floors are mostly wooden parquet throughout (except the red tiles in the kitchen) and the main rooms have exquisite marble fireplaces.
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The ballroom was turned into a kitchen, with a robust oak parquet that will only improve with the hammering it receives from energetic youngsters.
Times, Sunday Times
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No two rooms are the same, but expect high ceilings, parquet floors and flashes of colour or oversized pictures on feature walls.
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The simple, elegant lines of the tub are enhanced by an ebonized parquet floor.
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The dining room has a pitched ceiling, an original fireplace, parquet flooring and two front-facing arched windows.
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We rollerskate in parquet hallways and throw water balloons from roof gardens tended by Japanese men whose names we don't know.
Popular Girls
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The parquet floors were polished to a rich gleam and the new swimming pool sparkled in the garden.
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I notice the off-white parquet floors, which look contemporary.
The Luxury of Space and Silence in Stockholm
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The parquet was a bit warped, but it was parquet, just the same.
LADY of SKYE
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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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I looked down and saw these beautiful parquet floors.
Brick House in Park Slope
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With parquet flooring, a large living room and a wonderful kitchen-diner, the house seems crowded yet appealing in its very own way.
Crescent Road House: Downtown Toronto sports a modern delight!
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The parquet floor was left raw, showing off Its rich patina.
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In the first floor offices oak parquet flooring and silver aluminium roof make a soothing, neutral interior.
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It has solid oak parquet floors and a courtyard garden.
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Quantities of prisoners were made, and over a thousand burghers were said to be slain -- in fact, the veldt was a complete parquet of dead Dutchmen.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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A low table - only calf-high - filled the center of the room; oak, it looked like, with parquetry designs inlaid in the surface.
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It has a recently refurbished lounge, including a period fireplace and parquet flooring.
The Sun
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The undeniable beauty of parquet flooring is financially out of reach for many people.
325 Gold Street, 6th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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I spend most of our conversation fearful of dropping it on her parquet floor.
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The trend for recycling salvaged sinks, tiles, parquet flooring and gargoyles, or anything else that can be gleaned from about-to-be-demolished noteworthy buildings, has boomed.
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The room has an impressive Adam-style marble fireplace and although presently carpeted, is fitted with parquet flooring.
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Ay, sir, so it is," said the big sailor; and together the pair went from room to room, Tom May insisting upon looking under the couch in the study, under the table, and then lifting up the square of Turkey carpet that half covered the well-made parqueterie floor, which glistened with the polishing given to it by busy slave labour.
Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop
