parquet

A floor made of parquetry.

The art or process of making parquetry.

The part of the main floor of a theater between the orchestra pit and the parquet circle.

The entire main floor of a theater.

To furnish with a floor of parquetry.

To make (a floor, for example) of parquetry.

Properly, that part of the auditorium of a theater which extends from the usual station of the musicians, in front of the stage, to the parterre, which is the part of the floor beneath the galleries; the former pit of an English theater (pit now being often used in a new sense, equivalent to parterre), or the orchestra of a French theater.

In French law: The magistrates who are charged with the conduct of proceedings in criminal cases and misdemeanors.

The space in a court-room between the judge’s bench and the seats of the counsel.