PARGETTING (from O. Fr. pargeter or pajeter; par, all over, and jeter, to throw, i.e. " rough cast "; other derivations suggested have been from Lat. spargere, to sprinkle, and from paries, a wall, the last due to writing the parjet in the form pariet)

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PARGETTING (from O. Fr. pargeter or pajeter; par, all over, and jeter, to throw, i.e. " rough cast "; other derivations suggested have been from Lat. spargere, to sprinkle, and from paries, a wall, the last due to writing the parjet in the form pariet) , a

term

TERM

applied to the decoration in

relief

RELIEF

of the plastering between the studwork on the outside of half-timber houses, or sometimes covering the whole

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL,
RICHARD
(1694-1778)

. The devices were stamped on the wet plaster. This seems generally to have been done by sticking a number of pins in a board in certain lines or curves, and then pressing on the wet plaster in various directions, so as to form geometrical figures. Sometimes these devices are in

relief

RELIEF

, and in the time of Elizabeth represent figures, birds, foliages, &c.; fine examples are to be seen at

Ipswich

IPSWICH

, Maidstone,

Newark

, &c. (See PLASTER-

WORK

WORK

.) The

term

TERM

is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke flues to form an even surface for the passage of the smoke.

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