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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARGETTING (from O. Fr. pargeter or pajeter; See also:par, all over, and jeter, to throw, i.e. " rough See also:cast "; other derivations suggested have been from See also:Lat. spargere, to sprinkle, and from paries, a See also:wall, the last due to See also:writing the parjet in the See also:form pariet)  , a 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 . The devices were stamped on the wet See also:plaster . 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 . 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, See also:Newark, &c . (See PLASTER-See also:WORK.) The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of See also:smoke flues to form an even See also:surface for the passage of the smoke .

End of Article: 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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