▪ I. pargeting, vbl. n.
(ˈpɑːdʒɪtɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
1. The action of parget v.; plastering; adorning with plaster-work; † transf. painting (of the face).
| 1396 Compotus Will. Chert Custodis Coll. Cantuar. Oxon. (1881) 33 Item pro carecta calcis pro parchetting vjs. viijd. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 384/1 Pargettynge (or spargettynge of wallis), gipsacio, gipsatura. 1588 T. Thomas Dict. (1606), Incrustatio, a laying over, a pargetting,..a rough-casting. 1661 Rust Origen's Opin. in Phœnix (1721) I. 42 If the House be ruinous..all the external Painting and Pargetting imaginable..can neither secure the Inhabitants from its Fall. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 218 Pargeting..signifies the Plastering of Walls. 1853 Turner Dom. Archit. II. ii. 45 Impressed on the plaster in the same manner as pargetting was performed. |
| fig. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Diat. v. 247 Much pargetting there is, to shew a disparity between the Word and Prayer and the Sacraments. |
2. concr. Plaster or plaster-work, often ornamental: = parget n. 1, 2.
| 1388 Wyclif Ezek. xiii. 12 Where is the pargetyng [1382 dawbynge], which ȝe pargetiden? 1538 Elyot, Tectorium, the playstrynge or pariettynge of a house. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 543 The wals glistered with red marble, and pargeting of divers colours. 1756 R. Pococke Trav. (1889) II. 228 All the old houses in Herefordshire are built with frames of wood and cage work between, call'd pargiting. 1838 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 212/2 The practice is to coat the inside of the flue with a composition of lime⁓mortar with cow-dung, called ‘pargetting’. 1885–94 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche May 9 The pargeting of ceiling and of wall Was fresco'd o'er with figures manifold. |
3. attrib.
| 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage vii. i. 550 They annoynt it with a kinde of pargetting mortar. |
▪ II. ˈpargeting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That pargets; † that ‘whitewashes’, glosses or smooths over.
| 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. A ij b, You must not acquiesce in the pargetting verdict of those who are wealthy and well at ease. |