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
The Lakers did, winning Game 6 on Boston’s famed parquet floor to become NBA champions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
Boston made a blockbuster move in 2017 by trading for Irving, with the hopes of seeing him grace its parquet floor in the NBA Finals.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
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
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
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
She turned toward the interior of the room and she stamped her foot on the parqueted floor.
From The Indiscretion of the Duchess by Hope, Anthony
The wainscot wants patching up, and so does the parqueted floor.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
The ground was covered with a parqueted flooring of rare wood, forming concentric patterns.
From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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
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Girl in the Blue Coat
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