parget

From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/

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• Hyphenation: par‧get

parget (third-person singular simple present pargets, present participle pargeting or pargetting, simple past and past participle pargeted or pargetted)

1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
   • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:

     parget the outside of their houses.

   • 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae:

     the pargeted ceiling with pendants

   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:

     Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.

2. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

parget (countable and uncountable, plural pargets)

1. Gypsum.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 135:

     Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.

2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:

     The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.

3. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.