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See also: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
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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: |
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