Meaning of Parquet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
2. The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
3. In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions; a procuratorate.
   historical
4. In some European bourses or stock exchanges, the railed-in space within which the agents de change, or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them, distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.
   historical

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Examples

“That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play⟳ in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light⟳ with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.”

“The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last⟳ quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].”

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