Parquet

Definition of parquet:

part of speech: noun

Floor; lowest range of seats in a theatre.

Usage examples for parquet:

• The theatre was large, and brilliant in decoration, the seats were well filled with the same heterogeneous mingling she had seen in the dining- room at the Placer Hotel, but in the parquet were some fashionable costumes and cultivated faces. "Susy, A Story of the Plains", Bret Harte.

• Thus all the very well- dressed and very expensively- dressed women, and all the men who admired and desired them as they moved, in voluptuous perfection, amid dazzling pictures with the soft illumination of screened skylights above and the reflections in polished parquet below- all of both sexes were comfortably conscious of virtue in the undoubted fact that they were helping to support two renowned hospitals where at that very moment dissevered legs and arms were being thrown into buckets. "The Pretty Lady", Arnold E. Bennett.