parquet

Example Sentences

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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

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

A few blocks away from The Node, one of them, Snafu Records, is based at a shared office space with a parquet floor and a cocktail bar.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

Martin’s team installed a parquet floor, built a bandstand for live jazz accompaniment and transformed all the doorways to look like openings into the home.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2022

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