MEANING
Decorative work made by arranging small pieces of wood in geometric patterns, especially for floors.
Use it for
describing a patterned wooden floor; distinguishing geometric wood arrangement from painted ornament
Words that belong together
- parquetry flooring
- geometric parquetry
On the page
The parquetry flooring changed direction around the central border.
Wear had softened the contrast within the geometric parquetry.
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Word forms
- Base
- parquetry
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: moderately common.
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