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
For those who come in through the women’s side, you’ll be greeted with a leather goods salon that’s designed in shades of creamy white with gold accents and traditional Versailles parquet flooring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
The Celtics didn’t mess around after dropping Game 2 on their home parquet floor by 24 on Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
To delighted squeals, Stargirl led them off the parquet dance floor onto the other courts—and then through the chain-link fence and off the tennis courts altogether.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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
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
There we found, spread upon a spotless cloth which rested on a clean-swept though cracked pavement parqueted in different marbles, a most delightful and plentiful luncheon.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
The parqueted floor was partially covered with skins, and the furniture seemed to have known many a generation; some of it was heavy and cumbersome, some of it was modern.
From Vain Fortune by George (George Augustus) Moore
As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather-light, so—danceth sleep upon me.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Girl in the Blue Coat
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