parget

American  

[pahr-jit] / ˈpɑr dʒɪt /

noun

1. any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.

2. gypsum.

3. pargeting.

---

verb (used with object)

pargeted, pargeting, pargetted, pargetting

1. to cover or decorate with parget or pargeting.

parget British  

/ ˈpɑːdʒɪt /

noun

1. Also called: pargeting. 

   1. plaster, mortar, etc, used to line chimney flues or cover walls

   2. plasterwork that has incised ornamental patterns

2. another name for gypsum

---

verb

1. to cover or decorate with parget

Other Word Forms

• unpargeted
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of parget

1300–50; Middle English < Middle French pargeter, equivalent to par- per- + geter, spelling variant of jeter to throw; see jet ¹

Example Sentences

The houses, crépi or parget below and bamboo above, are mere band-boxes raised from the ground; the smaller perfectly imitated poultry-crates.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir