parterre









parterre


noun

  1. Also called parquet circle. the rear section of seats, and sometimes also the side sections, of the main floor of a theater, concert hall, or opera house.
  2. an ornamental arrangement of flower beds of different shapes and sizes.

noun

  1. a formally patterned flower garden
  2. British and Irish the pit in a theatre
  3. US another name for parquet circle

n.1630s, from French parterre (1540s), from adverbial phrase par terre “over the ground;” see par + terrain

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