Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plaster-work of various kinds; especially, a sort of ornamental work in plastering, with raised or indented patterns and ornaments, much used in the interior and often on the exterior of houses of the Tudor period.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses.
- noun (In modern architecture) the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
decorative plasterwork used on exteriorwalls
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ornamental plasterwork
- noun ornamental plastering
- noun plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys
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Examples
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Broken oyster shells are distinguishable in the decorated plasterwork, indicating that the pargeting was done at Jamestown.
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America J. Paul Hudson
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In the Little Shambles, too, there are many curious details in the high gables, pargeting and oriel windows.
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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The prince pulled a golden bell-cord that shone against the green pargeting of the wall.
Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ Irving Bacheller 1904
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The Sun Inn, or "House of the Giants," as it has sometimes been called, from the colossal figures which appear in the pargeting over its gateway, is a building which evidently grew with the needs of the town, and a study of its architectural features is curiously instructive.
Vanishing England 1892
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Raising their heads, both men looked up at the little dwelling, which seemed quite lifeless, with its narrow casements and its coarse, violet pargeting, displaying the shameful ugliness of poverty.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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Raising their heads, both men looked up at the little dwelling, which seemed quite lifeless, with its narrow casements and its coarse, violet pargeting, displaying the shameful ugliness of poverty.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 ��mile Zola 1871
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Raising their heads, both men looked up at the little dwelling, which seemed quite lifeless, with its narrow casements and its coarse, violet pargeting, displaying the shameful ugliness of poverty.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Cheaping Knowe was all builded of stone; but the houses here were of timber for the most part, done over with pargeting and whitened well.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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He havasu real estate purposely to the sandbar in a west stertorous way, and his fans pargeting his gastropoda ninefold.
Rational Review 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word pargeting
"At Corbets Tey, we admire the pargeting and think of Marc Atkins. It might be a moulded shield or an entire wall. The iconography of Essex pargeting is a topic we're too wet to debate. Oak trees, stags, horsemen: the confederacy of the forest."
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair, p 514 of the Penguin paperback edition
February 13, 2012