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Meanings of parterre in English

Russian
партер
Portuguese
parterre
Spanish
patio de butacas
Catalan
platea
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The word parterre comes from the French par and terre and literally translated means "on the ground".

        партер
        Portuguese
        platéia

        Seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies)

              platéia
              Usage of parterre in English
              1
              The seats in the parterre were mahogany chairs upholstered in blue damask.
              Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
              2
              The eyes of that gentleman were no longer for the gay parterre.
              Audrey
              3
              As if by magic, the aspect of the parterre was changed.
              Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
              4
              There was a space of open ground- agreenparterre-betweenit and the flowerbeds.
              The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
              5
              The parterre was already jammed and so were the three tiers above him.
              Cry to heaven
              6
              But she resumed: 'Would you like to go into the flower-garden, the parterre?
              Abbe Mouret's Transgression
              7
              Fatigued with the crowded assembly and the fluttering parterre, I sought relief in solitude.
              Italian Letters, Vols. I and II; Or, The History of the Count de...
              8
              History of the Opera House and tells about parterre boxes.
              The new yorker
              9
              I had a seat in the parterre, I may say.
              Castles in the Air
              10
              Lupinus sat silent and confused in the parterre, near Joseph.
              Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
              11
              Guy takes inordinate pride in his parterre, arranges and overlooks all the flowers himself.
              Beulah
              12
              In this wasted solitude you meet, all of a sudden, the most smiling parterre.
              Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 / France and the Net...
              13
              They had crossed the parterre by this time, and were almost at the window.
              Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
              14
              O'er the parterre spread the incense-clouds a canopy right fair:
              Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
              15
              For now a most variegated garden parterre met my sight.
              Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
              16
              The analogy can scarcely hold farther than in a parterre; and even there very imperfectly.
              Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
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