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Parget vs Larget - What's the difference?

parget | larget |

As nouns the difference between parget and larget

is that parget is gypsum or plaster stone while larget is a short piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.

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.

    • larget

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
    • (Webster 1913)