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Parquetry:
Furniture inlaid with geometrical designs similar to parquet floors.
The space on either side of the splat on a Queen Anne chair that resembles a parrot in form.
for, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine), generally the lower horizontal surface of a room, but specially employed for one covered with boarding or parquetry.
herringbone pattern, herringbone - a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery ...
Breakfast nooks off the kitchen
Recessed window seats
Beamed ceilings with dark wood or plaster beams finished to look like wood
Stone floors or plain wide boards or parquetry in herringbone, checkered, or geometrical patterns ...
 See also: House, Geometric, Floor, Ground, Finish
  
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