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parquet floor
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synonyms: tessellated ???
tags: [architecture]
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Definition:flooring of wooden blocks arranged in a geometric pattern
photo: By Eric Kilby - Flickr: High above courtside, CC BY-SA 2.0, (just a portion of the original photo)
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only the parquet floor was not yet finished, and the carpenters, who were planing a block of it, left their work,
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They entered a room with a parquet floor and orange walls.
Anita Hughes. Christmas in London, p.231 (2017)
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A house was built with parquet floors and a weathercock on the roof; a dozen old women were collected from the villages and made to sleep under blankets and sheets of Dutch linen, and given toffee to eat.
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories
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He walked shyly and awkwardly over the parquet floor
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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if I found no one to make my way back to the hall and have myself let out, when, just as I had risen from my chair and taken a few steps across the mosaic parquet of the floor, a manservant came in, with a troubled expression:
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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