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parquet

[pahr-key] / pɑrˈkeɪ /


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Beds are surrounded by animal-print seating, parquet oak flooring, marble tables, mirrored cabinets and custom wallpaper.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

Built in 2008, it features parquet de Versailles flooring, 18th-century French Louis XV–carved stone fireplaces, and hand-carved marble bathtubs.

From MarketWatch Jan. 5, 2026

Settled down on the polished parquet flooring, no doubt cross-legged, they were part of something that would shape the learning landscape forever.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

It will be especially different in Boston, where parquet will be temporarily put away.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2023

She reached for her bathrobe, tied it tightly about her waist, and padded down the winding staircase, leaving sloppy wet footprints along the parquet floor.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was in the hall a shining floor painted and parqueted, there were Viennese chairs, a piano, a violin stand; there was a smell of paint.

From The Schoolmaster by Garnett, Constance

A lady who is to tread a velvet carpet or a parqueted floor does not need a wooden shoe; she needs a satin slipper or boot.

From Manners and Social Usages by Sherwood, Mrs. John M. E. W.

She was in high feather, and as she tramped along the cool parqueted hall she kept calling out, "Uncle Ju—where are you, Uncle Ju?"

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

There we found, spread upon a spotless cloth which rested on a clean-swept though cracked pavement parqueted in different marbles, a most delightful and plentiful luncheon.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various




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