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parterre
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Definition:1. (Hort.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.2. The pit of a theater; the parquet. [France]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
painting: by Childe Hassam, 1888
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The Grand Parterre at Fontainebleau, called in other days the Parterre de Tiber, offered as remarkable an example of the terrace garden as was to be found in France, the terraces rising a metre or more above the actual garden plot and enclosing a sort of horticultural arena.
Milburg Francisco Mansfield. Royal Palaces and Parks of France (1910)
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The casket was soon open before them, and the various jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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Have you sufficiently observed the wonders it covers, its fishes, its zoophytes, its parterres of sponges, and its forests of coral? Did you catch a glimpse of the towns on its borders?"
"Yes, Captain Nemo," I replied
Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
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The piece was this: look at the lamps. The cast was thus: see under the clock. Ladies circle: cloaks may be left. Pit, prommer and parterre, standing room only. Habituels conspicuously emergent.
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939)
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