different between stuccowork vs parget

English

Etymology

stucco +? work

Noun

stuccowork (plural stuccoworks)

1. work done in stucco

English

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 iact?, frequentative of iaci?). The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??d??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??d??t/
• Hyphenation: par?get

Verb

parget (third-person singular simple present pargets, present participle pargeting or pargetting, simple past and past participle pargeted or pargetted)

1. To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
   • 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great

     parget the outside of their houses.

   • 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae

     the pargeted ceiling with pendants
2. (obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

Translations

Noun

parget (countable and uncountable, plural pargets)

1. Gypsum.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.135:

     Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.

2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
3. (obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.

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