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Parget   Listen
noun
Parget  n.  
1.
Gypsum or plaster stone.
2.
Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
3.
Paint, especially for the face. (Obs.)






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"Parget" Quotes from Famous Books



... plantations still showed fruits and flowers probably left by the Portuguese—wild oranges, mangoes, limes, pine-apples, and the 'four o'clock,' a kind of 'marvel of Peru,' supposed to open at that hour. The houses, crepi or parget below and bamboo above, are mere band-boxes raised from the ground; the smaller perfectly imitated poultry-crates. All appeared unusually neat and clean, with ornamental sheets of clam-shells trodden into the earth before the thresholds. 'Fetish' was abundant, and so was that worst ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron



Words linked to "Parget" :   pargetting, daub, masonry



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