| 单词 |
pargeter |
| 释义 |
pargeter|ˈpɑːdʒɪtə(r)|
Forms: 6 pargetour(e, pergeter, 6– pargetter, 7 -gettor, -jetter, 9 -giter, 8– -geter.
[orig. pargetour = OF. *parjetteur, agent-n. from parjet-er: see prec.]
1. A plasterer; a whitewasher.
1538Elyot, Cementarii, daubers, pargetters, rowghe masons, whiche do make onely walles. 1658Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 8 Not far from the Town, he met 10 Pargettors..carrying with them their tools. 1826J. Bailey Forcellini, Dealbator, one who white-washes, a pargeter. 1936S. R. Jones Eng. Village Homes vi. 96 Men who dabbed on the clay were ‘daubers’, and those responsible for working the plaster were ‘playsterers’ or ‘pargetters’. 1951Lambert & Marx Eng. Popular Art iii. 48 In the nineteenth century the pargeter sometimes turned his hand to making plaques for inn signs. 1968J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts iii. 55 This includes millwrights, masons, thatchers, sawyers, drystone-wallers and pargetters.
2. fig. One who ‘bedaubs’ with flattery; a sycophant.
a1656Ussher Power Princes i. (1683) 71 Let those parjetters of great men now come forth. |
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