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par⋅get

  [pahr-jit] noun, verb, -get⋅ed, -get⋅ing or (especially British) -get⋅ted, -get⋅ting.
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–noun
1. any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, esp. a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
2. gypsum.
3. pargeting (defs. 2, 3).
–verb (used with object)
4. to cover or decorate with parget or pargeting.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < MF pargeter, equiv. to par- per- + geter, sp. var. of jeter to throw; see jet 1

par⋅get⋅ing

  [pahr-ji-ting]
–noun
1. the act of a person who pargets.
2. ornamental or fine plasterwork, esp. exterior plasterwork bearing designs in low relief.
3. a lining of mortar or plaster for a chimney flue or the like.
Also, especially British, par⋅get⋅ting; parget (for defs. 2, 3).

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see parget, -ing 1
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par·get   (pär'jĭt)   
n.  
  1. A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys.
  2. Ornamental work in plaster.
  3. A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls.
tr.v.   par·get·ed also par·get·ted, par·get·ing also par·get·ting, par·gets also par·gets
To cover or adorn with parget.

[Middle English, probably from pargetten, to parget, from Old French pargeter, parjeter, to throw about (par-, intensive pref. from Latin per; see per1 in Indo-European roots + jeter, to throw from Latin iactāre, frequentative of iacere; see yē- in Indo-European roots) and from Old French porgeter, to roughcast a wall (por-, forward ultimately from Latin porrō; see per1 in Indo-European roots + iactāre, to throw).]
par'get·ing n.
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