parquet floor
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- noun
- /pɑrˈkeɪ ˌflɔr/
:
suelo de parquet
- The grand hall featured a stunning parquet floor that added elegance to the room.
- a polished parquet floor
- an oak parquet floor
- shiny parquet floors
The Hills are attracted to it because of the parquet floors, but they notice a ripple in the wood.
- The Hills are attracted to it because of the parquet floors, but they notice a ripple in the wood.
Examples
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The second floor was a maze of cool, silent rooms with polished parquet floors and track lighting suspended from the high ceilings.
Fiction book (2001) -
A well-worn parquet floor creaked incriminatingly beneath my feet.
Fiction book (1998) -
The walls and parquet floor are made of six separate hard woods.
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Then I heard his chair pushed back and his boots sound on the parquet floor.
Fiction book (1994) -
I always hated the parquet floors in our East Side place.
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For example, we're going to get a gorgeous wide plank parquet floor in here, dark wood.
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A china vase had shattered on the parquet floor.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'm lying on the parquet floor, motionless, tiny, surrounded by amber.
Fiction book (1995) -
Marian's heels clicked on the parquet floor.
Fiction book (1991) -
Colorful Indian rugs were scattered over the scratched but polished parquet floor.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A floor made of small wooden pieces in a decorative pattern
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A material placed on a floor to protect it and make it look nice
How Decorative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'parquet' (a decorative floor made of small wooden pieces) with 'floor' (the room's bottom surface): the phrase simply names a type of floor. This noun + noun type-labeling pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Parquet floor comes from the word parquet, which was used for small wooden blocks fitted together like a puzzle to make a design. That's why parquet floor means 'a floor made of small pieces of wood arranged in a decorative pattern'.