Parterre

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:49:52

Par*terre" (?), n. [F., fr. par on, by (L. per)+terre earth, ground, L. terra. See Terrace.]

1. Hort.

An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

2.

The pit of a theater; the parquet.

[France]

 

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