parget

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
parget
    n 1: plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys [syn:
         {parget}, {pargeting}, {pargetting}]
    v 1: apply ornamental plaster to
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Parget \Par"get\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pargeted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Pargeting}.] [OE. pargeten, also spargeten, sparchen; of
   uncertain origin.]
   1. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior
      of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. --Sir
      T. Herbert.
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            The pargeted ceiling with pendants.   --R. L.
                                                  Stevenson.
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   2. To paint; to cover over. [Obs.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Parget \Par"get\, v. i.
   1. To lay on plaster.
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   2. To paint, as the face. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Parget \Par"get\, n.
   1. Gypsum or plaster stone.
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   2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for
      stuccowork. --Knight.
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   3. Paint, especially for the face. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "parget":
      apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, brush on paint,
      calcimine, cement, coat, color, complexion, concrete, cover, dab,
      daub, deep-dye, dip, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel,
      engild, face, fast-dye, fresco, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, grout,
      hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lay on color,
      mastic, mortar, paint, pigment, plaster, prime, roughcast, shade,
      shadow, shellac, slop on paint, smear, stain, stipple, stucco,
      tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, undercoat, varnish, wash,
      whitewash

    

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