| parterre | 1. <botany> An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. 2. The pit of a theater; the parquet. Origin: F, fr. Par on, by (L. Per)+terre earth, ground, L. Terra. See Terrace. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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