parquet
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It mixes images of parquet floors; spindly, naked trees; and Sol LeWitt-style stripes in a geometric composition that juxtaposes inside and out, black and white, relaxation and activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
The judges liberally doled out scores of 10 to the performers, who swanned deftly across the parquet flooring in colorful, “Alice in Wonderland”-inspired costumes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Whatever the reasons, the local chapter of the Danish Brotherhood constructed a big, sturdy, multiuse building with handsome parapets outside and handsomer parquet flooring inside.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
While we were waiting I saw a cockroach on the parquet floor that must have been at least three inches long.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lady who is to tread a velvet carpet or a parqueted floor does not need a wooden shoe; she needs a satin slipper or boot.
From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
The interior, divided into twenty rooms, was paneled and parqueted in the most expensive manner for homes of that day.
From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser
Only the embrace of Jack's good left arm kept Mrs. De Peyster from subsiding into a jellied heap upon her parqueted floor.
From No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott
The wainscot wants patching up, and so does the parqueted floor.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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Girl in the Blue Coat
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