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Parget vs Garget - What's the difference?

parget | garget |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between parget and garget

is that parget is (obsolete) to paint; to cover over while garget is (obsolete) the throat.

As nouns the difference between parget and garget

is that parget is gypsum or plaster stone while garget is (obsolete) the throat.

As a verb parget

is to coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.

parget

English

Noun

(pargets)
  • Gypsum or plaster stone.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.135:
    • Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.
  • Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
  • *
  • (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.

    • Verb

  • To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.
  • * Sir T. Herbert
    • to parget the outside of their houses.
  • * Robert Louis Stevenson
    • the pargeted ceiling with pendants
  • *
  • (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

    • garget

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The throat.
    • (Chaucer)
  • An inflammation on a cow's udder.
  • A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite.
    • (Youatt)
  • (botany, obsolete) Pokeweed.

    • Derived terms

    * gargety

    Anagrams

    *tagger

    References

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