parterre
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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parterre. 1. Flat terrace near a house laid out with flower-beds or decorative planting in a regular formation to be read from above. Types include:parterre à l'anglaise:
plat or turfed lawn with a design cut into it; It can also be a large area of grass sparingly cut into to form patterns, sur rounded by a path on the other side of which is a border of flowers;parterre de broderie:
embroidered parterre with the patterns formed of trimmed box planting bordering beds of coloured earth, occasionally with bands of turf;parterre d'eau symmetrical arrangement of pools, surrounded by paths, with statuary and fountains;
parterre de compartiment: embroidered parterre symmetrical about two axes.
2. Orchestra-stalls of a theatre (see
parquet (2)).
Bibliography
Goulty (1991);
Sturgis et al. (1901–2);
Symes (1993)
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alkali
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alkali metals
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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