parquet
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It mixes images of parquet floors; spindly, naked trees; and Sol LeWitt-style stripes in a geometric composition that juxtaposes inside and out, black and white, relaxation and activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
When it was suggested he might become defence secretary in a previous reshuffle, he said that if removed, "you will see nail marks on the parquet floor in my office".
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
Whatever the reason, she now walks briskly out of the room, heels clacking on parquet floors, and by the time I catch up to her, she's already pinning on a navy hat.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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
As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather-light, so—danceth sleep upon me.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In the finely parqueted floor great holes appear; the places from which fine statues of Canova's were, as the steward told us, dragged up for the Emperor of Russia.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Augustus J. C. Hare
But when he came to the mainmast, he was even more astonished to find himself walking on a parqueted floor, partly covered by a strip of carpet of a small blue and white checked pattern.
From In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales by August Strindberg
The parqueted floor was partially covered with skins, and the furniture seemed to have known many a generation; some of it was heavy and cumbersome, some of it was modern.
From Vain Fortune by George (George Augustus) Moore
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