Parget

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  • noun. A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys.
  • noun. Ornamental work in plaster.
  • noun. A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls.
  • transitive verb. To cover or adorn with parget.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover with parget or plaster; ornament with pargeting.
  • To paint; cover or daub with paint.
  • Hence To gloss over; disguise.
  • To cover something with parget or plaster.
  • To lay on paint.
  • noun. Gypsum or plaster-stone.
  • noun. Plaster; specifically, a kind of mortar formed of lime, hair, and cow-dung.
  • noun. Plaster-work; especially, a more or less ornamental facing for exterior walls, decorated with figures in relief or sunk in the surface; pargeting.
  • noun. Paint, especially paint for the face.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To lay on plaster.
  • intransitive verb. To paint, as the face.
  • transitive verb. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues.
  • transitive verb. To paint; to cover over.
  • noun. Gypsum or plaster stone.
  • noun. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
  • noun. Paint, especially for the face.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Gypsum or plaster stone.
  • noun. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
  • noun. Paint, especially for the face.
  • verb. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
  • verb. To paint; to cover over.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. apply ornamental plaster to
  • noun. plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys
  • Word Usage
    "Within their doors also, such as are of ability do oft make their floors and parget of fine alabaster burned, which they call plaster of Paris, whereof in some places we have great plenty, and that very profitable against the rage of fire."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    daub  plaster  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form