▪ I. parget, n.
(ˈpɑːdʒɪt)
Also 5–7 pariet (i = j), 6 -ette, 6 pergit, 7 parjet.
[app. f. parget v. (or from same source).]
1. Plaster spread upon a wall, ceiling, etc.; whitewash; roughcast; in mod. dial. spec. a plaster made of lime and cow-dung with which the flues of chimneys are lined.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 1536 A fust faylaynde þe wryst, Pared on þe parget, purtrayed lettres. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 414 The parget of thi wough be strong & bryght. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 383/2 Pa[r]get, or playster for wallys, gipsum,..litura. 1530 Palsgr. 252/1 Pariette for walles, blanchissevre. 1545 Joye Exp. Dan. v. 69 Wrytinge..in the whight parget of the wall of the kynges palace. 1639 Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xlviii. (1643) §526 Wih his trovell hee roughcasteth all over the plastering; to wit, with slaked lime..and with parjet. 1789 M. Madan tr. Persius (1795) 120 note, The plaster, parget, or rough cast of a wall. 1842–76 Gwilt Archit. (ed. 7) Gloss., Parget, a name given to the rough plaster used for lining chimney flues, and formed of lime and cow's dung. |
| fig. 1597 J. King On Jonas (1618) 162 Wipe out the parget of thy flitting honours, and take a naked view of thy naked selfe. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi κοινη Def. xx. 172 With what parget soever men may daub. |
2. spec. Ornamental work in plaster; a facing of plaster with ornamental designs in relief or indented, used for decoration of walls: also called pargeting. († Also applied to other wall-decoration, as gilding: cf. next, 1 c.) Obs. or Hist.
| [a 1400–50 Alexander 5285 A chambre,..parraillid all of plate-gold, pariet and oþire.] 1569 Spenser Visions Bellay ii, Golde was the parget: and the sielyng eke Did shine all scaly with fine golden plates. 1606 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 1162 All the Parget carv'd and branched trim With Flowrs and Fruits, and winged Cherubim. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 17/1 Unless you will grant the name of painting to a parget of various colours... This parget may be made of red oker burnt. |
† 3. Gypsum used for making plaster; plaster-stone.
| 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 27 Many Poysons are drawn from Minerals..as Quicksilver, red-Lead, Parget. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 56 Near Bardi, among the parget and chalk-veins, are found sexangular crystals. |
† 4. transf. Paint (for the face): cf. next, 2. Obs.
| 1593 Drayton Eclogues iv. 77 And Beauties selfe..Scorn'd Paintings Pergit, and the borrowed Haire. |
▪ II. parget, v.
(ˈpɑːdʒɪt)
Also 4 parchet, 5–6 pargett(e, pergette, (5 pergete, 6 pargytt), 6 pariet (i = j), 7 pariete, perget, 7–8 pargit.
[app. a. OF. pargeter, parjeter to throw or cast over a surface, in Liège pârjeter = jointoyer (Godef.) (‘a term of masonry, to fill up the joints of stones with mortar or plaster’ Littré), f. par through, all over + jeter to throw or cast: cf. (1557) ‘they cast it all over with claie, to keepe out the wind’, cast v. 57, and see roughcast.
The synonym spargette (found only in Promp. Parv.) has suggested to some a connexion with L. spargĕre, or a med.L. frequentative spargitare; the spelling pariet (i.e. parjet) has been by others ineptly connected with L. pariet-em partition-wall.]
1. trans. To cover or daub with parget or plaster, to plaster (a wall, etc.); to adorn with pargeting or ornamental plaster-work.
| 1382 Wyclif Ezek. xiii. 10 And he bildide a wal, forsothe thei dawbeden [gloss or pargetiden] it with fen with outen chaffis. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.), Cement..to ioyne stones togedres and to pargette and to whitelyme walles. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. xii. 301 The walles to be parieted without, and within, and diuersly paincted. 1632 Sir R. Le Grys tr. Velleius Paterc. 125 Quintus Catulus..shut himselfe up in a place lately pergetted with lime and sand,..and withall suffocating his owne breath, died. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 101/2 Let the floor of your Vault be pargetted. 1869 Latest News 5 Sept. 7 That no iron chimney bars supporting the arch are absent, and that the flues are pargeted. |
† b. To daub or plaster over with (anything).
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xii. (Bodl. MS.), Beene..pergetteth þe rof off her huyues wiþ wose and gomme. 1594 Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 31 Then parget ouer whatsoeuer thou wilt with this composition. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxvii. (1674) 104 They saw the Wretch pargeted with apparances four inches thick, all over his body. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 424 The continual confluence of Flocks of Water-Fowl..having paved or pargetted the whole Rock [Ascension] with their Filth. |
† c. To cover or decorate (a surface) with ornamental work of any kind, as gilding, precious stones, etc. Obs.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 3673 All pargestis [? pargettid] of plate as pure as þe noble. 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 34 b, The vessels of Glasse are pargetted and fenced. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 61 Their outside tyling pargetted with azure stones resembling turquoises. 1694 Motteux Rabelais v. xxxviii, The Roof and Walls of the Temple..all pargetted with Porphyry and Mosaick Work. 1886 R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) I. 85 The couch of juniper-wood, pargetted with gold and silver. |
† 2. transf. To daub or plaster (the face or body) with paint; to paint. Also intr. for refl. Obs.
| 1581 G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 125 b, Those dawbed, pargetted, and vermilion died faces. 1609 B. Jonson Sil. Wom. v. ii, She's aboue fiftie too, and pargets! 1660 F. Brooke Le Blanc's Trav. 192 They delight much to parget their bodies with a reddish earth. |
3. fig. To cover with a fair appearance; to ‘whitewash’, to smooth or gloss over. ? Obs.
| 1592 Conspir. Pretended Ref. 6 The sinke of these sinnes in him, hee alwayes smoothlie couered and parieted ouer..with a very rare outward earnestnesse. 1640 Bastwick Lord Bps. ii. C, Thus they did..parget, or roughcast their vices. 1824 Carlyle Wilhelm Meister II. xii. 237 If one did not try to parget-up the outward man as long as possible. |
Hence ˈpargeted ppl. a.
| 1538 Elyot, Calcatus, pergetted or whyte lymed. 1552 Huloet, Pargetted house, calcata. 1645 Burgesse Serm. Ho. Comm. 30 Apr. 51 With faire, (specious, pargetted, glozing words). 1888 Athenæum 16 June 760/2 Some charming pictures of old pargeted houses. |