noun
- 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.
- an ornamental arrangement of flower beds of different shapes and sizes.
noun
- a formally patterned flower garden
- British and Irish the pit in a theatre
- US another name for parquet circle
n.1630s, from French parterre (1540s), from adverbial phrase par terre “over the ground;” see par + terrain