parquet

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

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

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

It had shiny oak parquet floors, a foyer with two steps leading down into the living room—where I slept—and, off to the side, a bedroom that became Lori’s.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

In the finely parqueted floor great holes appear; the places from which fine statues of Canova's were, as the steward told us, dragged up for the Emperor of Russia.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

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

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 Dreiser, Theodore

She was in high feather, and as she tramped along the cool parqueted hall she kept calling out, "Uncle Ju—where are you, Uncle Ju?"

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)