parquet

plural parquets

1. A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.

   The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

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   That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.

   1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

2. The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
3. historicalIn some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions; a procuratorate.
4. historicalIn some European bourses or stock exchanges, the railed-in space within which the agents de change, or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them, distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.

present singular third person parquets · participle present parqueting · participle past parqueted · past parqueted · alternative parquette

1. transitiveTo lay or fit such a floor.