parget

present singular third person pargets · participle present pargeting · participle present pargetting · participle past pargeted · past pargeted · participle past pargetted · past pargetted

1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.

   the pargeted ceiling with pendants

   1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae

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   parget the outside of their houses.

   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

   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.

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

   Sapper insisted that the chimney was to be pargeted so he sent Jack out into the yard to meet the incoming milking cows.

   1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 69

2. obsoleteTo paint; to cover over.

plural pargets

1. countableuncountableGypsum.

   Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.

   1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 135

2. countableuncountablePlaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.

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

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

3. countableobsoleteuncountablePaint, especially for the face.