parget

Meaning

Verb

1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
2. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

Noun

1. Gypsum.
2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
3. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.

Synonyms

plaster

pargeting

pargetting

grout

mortar

paint

painting

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paintwork

pigment

render

scarify

stucco

brushwork

skimcoat

daub

dye

Hyphenated as

par‧get

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pargetten

In summary

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.