parterre
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɑːˈtɛə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɑːɹˈtɛɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: par‧terre
Noun
editparterre (plural parterres)
- (horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Sir Robert Walpole and House”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 238:
- The window opened towards a most lovely garden, whose smooth turf and gorgeous parterres swept down to the river.
- (horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
- 2015 August 29, Sarah Raven, “The stately home garden where you can pick-and-eat all summer [print version: Pick-and-eat planting for the modern parterre, page 5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1], archived from the original on 3 September 2015:
- Parham House, near Pulborough in West Sussex, has a four-acre walled garden that was restored in the Twenties and has been maintained at a high level ever since. It is divided into four areas, one of which is filled by the cut-flower borders and a box-enclosed parterre. […] It is traditional in a parterre to mix flowers and veg, but this relaxed jungle of productive plants, packed in tight together, is lusher and more beautiful than the more usual Villandry style, where single or pairs of plants are used.
- (theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
- (theater, by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class.
- (US, New York) An apartment balcony.
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French parterre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparterre m or n (plural parterres or parterren)
- ground floor
- Synonym: begane grond
- parterre, flowerbed
- parterre, level garden with flowerbeds
Derived terms
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French [Term?]. Equivalent to par + terre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparterre m (plural parterres)
- part of a garden that is divided into flowerbeds
- the part of a theater between the stalls and the rear
Descendants
edit- → Dutch: parterre
- → English: parterre
- → Greek: παρτέρι (partéri)
- → Polish: parter
- → Romanian: parter
- → Spanish: parterre
Further reading
edit- “parterre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French parterre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparterre m (plural parterres)
Further reading
edit- “parterre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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