parquet
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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
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
“Hello?” he says again, heels clicking on the parquet floor.
From "The Brightwood Code" 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
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.
You have the parqueted or painted floor, the porcelain stove, the sofa, the table, the wooden bedstead, and the wooden hanging cupboard wherever you are.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
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
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 Moore, George (George Augustus)
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