parquet
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Built in 2008, it features parquet de Versailles flooring, 18th-century French Louis XV–carved stone fireplaces, and hand-carved marble bathtubs.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026
Settled down on the polished parquet flooring, no doubt cross-legged, they were part of something that would shape the learning landscape forever.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024
Within weeks, she landed a deal for a stately 18th-century apartment, with parquet floors and high ceilings in the prestigious center of Russia’s former imperial capital of St. Petersburg.
From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2023
For example, parquet floors — in which wood slats are arranged in repeating, geometric patterns — were once all the rage in the 1960s and 1970s in New York.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023
There are two spacious rooms, flaking plaster walls, scuffed parquet floors, towering stacks of boxes he has not yet bothered to unpack.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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