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PARGETTING (from O. Fr. pargeter or pajeter; See also: term applied to the decoration in See also: relief of the plastering between the studwork on the outside of See also: half-See also: timber houses, or sometimes covering the whole See also: wall
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The devices were stamped on the wet See also: plaster
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This seems generally to have been done by sticking a number of pins in a See also: board in certain lines or curves, and then pressing on the wet plaster in various directions, so as to See also: form geometrical figures
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Sometimes these devices are in relief, and in the See also: time of See also: Elizabeth represent figures, birds, foliages, &c.;
See also: fine examples are to be seen at See also: Ipswich, See also: Maidstone, Newark, &c
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(See PLASTER-See also: WORK.) The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke flues to form an even See also: surface for the passage of the smoke
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