| 释义 |
▪ I. parquet, n.
(ˈpaːkeɪ, pɑːˈkɛt, ‖ parkɛ)
[a. (in specific senses) F. parquet, OF. parchet (14th c.) a small compartment, part of a park, theatre, court, etc., wooden flooring; dim. of parc park: see -et1.]
1. A flooring; spec. a wooden flooring composed of pieces of wood, often of different kinds, arranged in a pattern; a flooring of parquetry.
1816P. F. Tingry Painter & Varnisher's Guide (ed. 2) 384 Distemper for parquets, or floors of inlaid work. Ibid., The name of parquets is given to boards of fir intersected by pieces of walnut-tree, or disposed in compartments of which the walnut-tree forms the frame or border. 1832tr. Tour Germ. Prince II. xiii. 254 The large blocks of wood on the fire; the tile parquet,—all recall vividly to my mind that I am in France, and not in England. 1867‘Ouida’ C. Castlemaine (1879) 10 None such as these could cross the inlaid oak parquet of Lilliesford.
2. (Also erroneously parquette.) Part of the auditorium of a theatre, the front part of the ground-floor nearest the orchestra, or sometimes the whole of it. Chiefly U.S.
1848W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 34 Ladies..with their gay dresses, make what is the parquette in other theatres look like a bed of flowers. 1883M. Schuyler in Harper's Mag. Nov. 880/1 No actual hardship is attached to a seat in the parquet. Ibid. 884/2 The partition which runs from the floor of the parquette to the floor of the gallery is of fire-proof blocks. 1896Daily News 10 Feb. 6/6 In New York the stalls occupy the whole of the parquet.
‖3. In France, etc.: The branch of the administration of the law concerned with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime.
1892Pall Mall G. 30 Sept. 6/3 The orgies reported last week as having taken place in a Paris restaurant have attracted the attention of the parquet. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 289 The head of the whole Parquet in France is the Procureur-Général. 1903Speaker 19 Sept. 556/1 An unwise economy in the pay of the native Parquet or prosecuting body.
4. attrib. and Comb., as parquet-flooring, parquet-work; parquet carpet, a patterned square of carpet.
1902Parquet carpet [see art square s.v. art n. 18].
1819M. Wilmot More Lett. (1935) 20 Fruit and flowers dirt cheap—parqué flours—Carpits if you chuse to give a daughters dowery for them. 1833Princess Elizabeth Let. 28 Dec. (1898) 213 And the doctor said with those shoes she might now walk about the parquet floors. 1865M. Eyre Lady's Walks S. of France xxxi. 330 The parquet floors are undusted, unwaxed, and unswept.
1874M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble ii. ii. (1878) 245 The lacquered borders of the parquet floor.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 5 A polisher of parquet-flooring. 1901Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 4/2 Scottish tweeds are some of the herring-bone pattern;..others, again, what is called ‘parquet’, imitating a parquet flooring.
1886Willis & Clark Cambridge I. 116 A dais in parquet-work for the high table.
▪ II. parquet, v.
(ˈpɑːkɪt, ‖ parkɛ)
[a. F. parqueter (1382 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. parquet: see prec.]
trans. To provide (a room) with a floor of parquet-work; to construct (a flooring) of parquetry; to make of inlaid wood-work.
1678Evelyn Diary 23 Aug., The roomes are wain⁓scotted, and some of them parquetted with cedar, yew, cypresse, &c. 1865J. C. Bellew Blount Tempest I. 58 The flooring was parqueted very curiously, and so highly polished, that..it was as unsafe as ice. 1873M. Collins Squire Silchester III. xxii. 239 From the parqueted floor to the open oaken-raftered roof.
b. To turn into, or make like, a parquet floor.
1875R. F. Burton Gorilla L. (1876) II. 277 We ascended a path greasy with drizzle, parquetted by negro feet. |