Word Finder - parquet

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A wooden floor made of parquetry.

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The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.

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In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions.

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In 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.

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To lay or fit such a floor.

The peasants and house serfs carrying out the things were treading heavily on the parquet floors.

Procureurs-gnraux and avocats-gnraux are also attached to the parquet, or permanent official staff, of the courts of appeal.

His representatives are attached to each tribunal, and form the parquet under whose orders the police act in bringing criminals to justice.

The governor of Martinique, du Parquet, purchased it in 1650, and the French were well received by the Caribs, whom they afterwards extirpated with the greatest cruelty.

It doesn't have a parquet of inlayed wood patterns.

Things are nice as it is, she said to herself, and she began walking up and down the room, not stepping simply on the resounding parquet but treading with each step from the heel to the toe (she had on a new and favorite pair of shoes) and listening to the regular tap of the heel and creak of the toe as gladly as she had to the sounds of her own voice.

In the figure in which he had to choose two ladies, he whispered to Helene that he meant to choose Countess Potocka who, he thought, had gone out onto the veranda, and glided over the parquet to the door opening into the garden, where, seeing Balashev and the Emperor returning to the veranda, he stood still.

If you are working with parquet flooring, lay out the tiles in a triangular pattern.

The educational establishments include two gymnasia, an episcopal clerical seminary, a seminary for boys and a school of church music. Among the chief manufactures are iron and steel wares, pottery, parquet flooring, tobacco, and lead pencils.

He walked shyly and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at Schon Grabern--and he would have found that easier.

Dragging her feet across the creaking parquet floor around an old clothiers dummy, her mouth full of pins.

But the reclaimed parquet will need cleaning before laying n The double trunk heavy wooden coffee table, below, opens up for storage.

Ground floor is ceramic tiled and upper floor is solid wood parquet.

A serving hatch opens into the oak dining room and library with wood parquet floor.

The floor suggests a hardwood parquet floor, worn in the middle and darker around the edge, focusing on the playing area.

The ground floor has a concrete screed covered with parquet.

The highest tribunal in France is the cour de cassation, sitting at Paris, and consisting of a first president, three, sectional presidents and forty-five conseillers, with a ministerial staff (parquet) consisting of a procureur-general and six advocatesgeneral.

Highly polished parquet floors in geometric patterns were very popular.

Modern interiors feature marble floors in living areas and laminated parquet in bedrooms.

Walnut paneling still lines most of the reception rooms and the polished oak parquet floors still exist, sometimes under well worn carpets.

Of the finished varieties, there are a number of types to choose from, like strip flooring, parquet, and engineered flooring.