parget
/ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "parget the outside of their houses."
- "the pargeted ceiling with pendants"
- "Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam."
- "Sapper insisted that the chimney was to be pargeted so he sent Jack out into the yard to meet the incoming milking cows."
- "Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners."
- "The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones."
Etymology
From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/
- British English: /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/