parquet.

A surface, especially a floor, made from small pieces of wood arranged in a geometric pattern.

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Words that belong together

• parquet floor
• herringbone parquet
• polished parquet

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Sunlight caught the changing grain of the parquet.

One section of parquet had lifted after the radiator leaked.

She chose a herringbone parquet for the narrow dining room.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Often herringbone or another repeated design; ordinary parallel floorboards are not necessarily parquet. Usually a mass noun for flooring material or covering; also a count noun for a parquet floor, plural parquets. Secondary verb: parquet, parquets, parqueted, parqueted, parqueting.