Usage of "parterre" | TermGallery

ruso

партер

portugués

parterre

español

patio de butacas

catalán

platea

The word parterre comes from the French par and terre and literally translated means "on the ground".

stalls

patio de butacas

portugués

platéia

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

parquet circle

platéia

Uso de parterre en inglés

The seats in the parterre were mahogany chairs upholstered in blue damask. 
 Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a... 

The eyes of that gentleman were no longer for the gay parterre. 
 Audrey 

As if by magic, the aspect of the parterre was changed. 
 Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends 

There was a space of open ground- agreenparterre-betweenit and the flowerbeds. 
 The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico 

The parterre was already jammed and so were the three tiers above him. 
 Cry to heaven 

But she resumed: 'Would you like to go into the flower-garden, the parterre? 
 Abbe Mouret's Transgression 

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... 

History of the Opera House and tells about parterre boxes. 
 The new yorker 

I had a seat in the parterre, I may say. 
 Castles in the Air 

Lupinus sat silent and confused in the parterre, near Joseph. 
 Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends 

Guy takes inordinate pride in his parterre, arranges and overlooks all the flowers himself. 
 Beulah 

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... 

They had crossed the parterre by this time, and were almost at the window. 
 Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood 

O'er the parterre spread the incense-clouds a canopy right fair: 
 Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers 

For now a most variegated garden parterre met my sight. 
 Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life 

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... 