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parterre|pəˈtɛə(r), pɑː-|
Also 7 parterra, parter, parterr.
[a. F. parterre (1549 in R. Estienne); absolute use of the adverbial phrase par terre on or over (the surface of) the ground.]
1. A level space in a garden occupied by an ornamental arrangement of flower-beds of various shapes and sizes.
a1639Carew Coel. Brit. Wks. (1824) 188 A delicious garden, with severall walkes and parterra's set round with low trees. 1661Cowley Prop. Exper. Philos., College, A Parterre of Flowers. 1663Gerbier Counsel d ij b, Paradise like gardens..with Parters. 1699Lister Journ. Paris 181 Large Parterrs in the middle, and large Fountains of Water, which constantly play. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. C'tess Bristol 1 Apr., Like a parterre of tulips. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 53 A paling, cleaned with constant care, Surrounds ten yards of neat parterre. 1857C. Brontë Professor ix, A parterre of rose-trees.
fig.1709Mrs. Manley New Atl. (ed. 2) II. 197 See! that Chamber! are you not, as you look round, in a beautiful Parterre? 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. i. i, The casket was soon open before them, and the various jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table. 1889Illustr. Lond. News 16 Mar. 322, I cull these flowers from two parterres of opposite politics.
2. A level space on which a house or village stands.
1677J. P. tr. Tavernier's Trav. (1684) II. 79 (Stanf.) Moreover it is required for the beauty of an House, that it be seated in the midst of some great Parterre. 1876Cornh. Mag. Sept. 318 The village stands upon a small parterre.
3. The part of the ground-floor of the auditorium of a theatre behind the orchestra; later, in U.S., that part beneath the galleries. Also, The occupants of this part of a theatre.
1711Addison Spect. No. 29 ⁋8 The Chorus..gives the Parterre frequent Opportunities of joining in Consort with the Stage. 1753Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 41 (1756) I. 263 The Parterre..turned their Backs to the Stage, and blew their Noses. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 373 The parterre or pit is likewise adorned with several statues. 1883Harper's Mag. Nov. 884/1 The parterre and the..‘first’ tier are distributed among the stockholders.
4. attrib. and Comb., as parterre-like adj.
1849Clough Dipsychus i. iii. 66 The brilliant season's gay parterre-like room. 1901Westm. Gaz. 31 July 6/3 The American parterre system, which has been so successful at the Theatre Royal.
Hence parˈterred a., laid out in parterres.
1816J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 3) 203 What must have been the beautiful Hougomont,—with its wild orchard, its parterred flower garden, its gently-dignified chateau. |
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