ˈpargetry
[f. parget n. + -ry.]
= parget n. 2.
| 1908 G. P. Bankart Art of Plasterer vi. 64 (caption) Pargetry on House in High Street, Maidstone, now pulled down. 1936 S. R. Jones Eng. Village Homes vi. 97 Thought in design, and capacity to invent suitable tools for working, brought a good deal of variety to pargetry, as may be seen in roughcast and those numerous pricked, combed and scratched arrangements once known as arrowheads, tortoise-shell, zig-zag, herring-bone, basket-work, scallops, interlacing squares and wavy lines. |