Parget vs Parges - What's the difference?
parget | parges |
Gypsum or plaster stone.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.135:
Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
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(obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.
To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.
* Sir T. Herbert
* Robert Louis Stevenson
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(obsolete) To paint; to cover over.
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)- Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.
Verb
- to parget the outside of their houses.
- the pargeted ceiling with pendants