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PARTERRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 869 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PARTERRE , a See also:

TERM

term, taken from the See also:

French phrase See also:

PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par terre, i.e. on the See also:

SURFACE

surface of the ground, and used of an arrangement in a See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden of beds of See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers with See also:

GRAVEL, or PEBBLE BEDS

gravel or other paths and plots of grass; also of that See also:

PART

part of the auditorium of a See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre which is occupied by the See also:

ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra stalls .

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