Etymology

parterre

par·terre
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Today it means: A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one. Full definition →

French parterre
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromparterre“on the ground”
  2. English todayparterre

Borrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.