Etymology From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.
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To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
parget the outside of their houses.1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
the pargeted ceiling with pendants1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae:
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Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:
Sapper insisted that the chimney was to be pargeted so he sent Jack out into the yard to meet the incoming milking cows.1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 69:
Etymology From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.
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Gypsum.
Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 135:
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Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191: