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Parget vs Parges - What's the difference?

parget | parges |

As nouns the difference between parget and parges

is that parget is gypsum or plaster stone while parges is plural of parge.

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.
  • parges

    English

    Noun

    (head)