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
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
The judges liberally doled out scores of 10 to the performers, who swanned deftly across the parquet flooring in colorful, “Alice in Wonderland”-inspired costumes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Boston made a blockbuster move in 2017 by trading for Irving, with the hopes of seeing him grace its parquet floor in the NBA Finals.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
The dancing took place on the center tennis court, which had been covered with a portable parquet floor.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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
She turned toward the interior of the room and she stamped her foot on the parqueted floor.
From The Indiscretion of the Duchess by Anthony Hope
The interior, divided into twenty rooms, was paneled and parqueted in the most expensive manner for homes of that day.
From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser
The wainscot wants patching up, and so does the parqueted floor.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
From the parqueted hall, stairs lead to the modest chambers—that of Dickens being above the drawing-room.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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