parget

From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹdʒɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːdʒɪt/
• Hyphenation: par‧get

parget (third-person singular simple present pargets, present participle pargeting or pargetting, simple past and past participle pargeted or pargetted)

1. To coat with gypsum or plaster stone; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
   • Sir T. Herbert

     to parget the outside of their houses.

   • Robert Louis Stevenson

     the pargeted ceiling with pendants

   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:

     Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.

2. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

parget (plural pargets)

1. Gypsum or plaster stone.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.135:

     Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.

2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:

     The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.

3. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.