Summary

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ PARGETTING (from O. Fr. pargeter or parjeter; par, all over, and jeter, to throw, i.e. “rough cast”; other derivations suggested have been from Lat. spargere, to sprinkle, and from paries, a wall, the last due to writing the parjet in the form pariet) , a term applied to the decoration in relief of the plastering between the studwork on the outside of half-timber houses, or sometimes covering the whole wall. ”
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