adjective
- coated or covered with parget (a mixture of lime, clay, or plaster used for coating walls or timber)
Usage: chiefly British; historical or architectural context
verb
- past tense and past participle of parget; to coat or cover with parget
Usage: chiefly British; historical or architectural context
Examples
- The old cottage had pargeted walls that gleamed white in the sunlight.
- The builders pargeted the timber frame to protect it from the weather.
- Many medieval houses featured pargeted exteriors decorated with patterns.
- The pargeted surface had begun to crack and peel after decades of exposure.
- They pargeted the walls with a traditional lime mixture.