parquet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French parquet.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pä'kā, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːkeɪ/
• (US) enPR: pärkā', IPA^(key): /pɑːɹˈkeɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)keɪ, -eɪ

Noun

parquet (plural parquets)

1. A wooden floor made of wooden tiles or veneers arranged in a decorative geometrical pattern.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].

2. The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
3. (historical) In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions.
4. (historical) In some European bourses or stock exchanges, the railed-in space within which the agents de change, or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them, distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.

Derived terms

• parquet circle

Translations

a wooden floor made of parquetry

• Bulgarian: паркет (bg) m (parket)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鑲木地板／镶木地板 (xiāngmù dìbǎn), 鋪鑲木地板／铺镶木地板 (pùxiāng mùdìbǎn), 木條鑲花之地板／木条镶花之地板 (mùtiáo xiānghuā zhī dìbǎn)

• Czech: parketa (cs) f
• Finnish: parketti (fi)
• French: parquet (fr) m
• German: Parkett (de) n
• Hungarian: parketta (hu)
• Japanese: 寄せ木細工の床 (yosegi-zaiku no yuka), 寄せ木張りの床 (yosegi-hari no yuka)
• Macedonian: парке́т m (parkét)
• Norman: partchet m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parkett m

• Portuguese: parquete m
• Romanian: parchet (ro) n
• Russian: парке́т (ru) m (parkét)
• Swahili: sakafu ya mbao
• Turkish: parke (tr)

the part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle — see stall

Verb

parquet (third-person singular simple present parquets, present participle parqueting, simple past and past participle parqueted)

1. (transitive) To lay or fit such a floor.

Translations

to lay or fit such a floor

• Esperanto: pargeti
• German: parkettieren (de)
• Hungarian: parkettáz (hu)
• Macedonian: паркети́ра (parketíra)
• Romanian: parcheta (ro)

Alternative forms

• parquette

French

Etymology

From parc +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.kɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

parquet m (plural parquets)

1. parquet (floor)
2. (law, with definite article) the prosecution

   M. le procureur général est au parquet.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 2017 April 21, Julia Pascual, Elise Vincent, “Paris attaqué à la veille de l’élection présidentielle”, in Le Monde‎^[2]:

     Le parquet anti-terroriste s’est rapidement saisi de l’affaire.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• avoir les dents qui rayent le parquet

Descendants

terms borrowed from parquet

• → Czech: parketa
• → English: parquet
• → Estonian: parkett
• → Finnish: parketti
• → French: parquet
• → German: Parkett
• → Hungarian: parketta
• → Italian: parquet
• → Norman: partchet
• → Macedonian: паркет (parket)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاركه (parke)
  • Turkish: parke
• → Portuguese: parquete
• → Romanian: parchet
• → Russian: парке́т (parkét)
• → Spanish: parquet
• → Walloon: parkèt

Further reading

• “parquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French parquet.

Noun

parquet m (invariable)

1. parquet (wooden flooring)
2. basketball court
3. floor of the stock exchange

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French parquet.

Noun

parquet m (plural parquets)

1. parquet