parget

Definition

To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.

Etymology

From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.

Example Sentences

• "parget the outside of their houses."
• "the pargeted ceiling with pendants"
• "Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam."