The word parterre comes from the French par and terre and literally translated means "on the ground".
Seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies)
1 The seats in the parterre were mahogany chairs upholstered in blue damask.
2 The eyes of that gentleman were no longer for the gay parterre .
3 As if by magic, the aspect of the parterre was changed.
4 There was a space of open ground- a green parterre - between it and the flowerbeds.
5 The parterre was already jammed and so were the three tiers above him.
6 But she resumed: 'Would you like to go into the flower-garden, the parterre ?
7 Fatigued with the crowded assembly and the fluttering parterre , I sought relief in solitude.
8 History of the Opera House and tells about parterre boxes.
9 I had a seat in the parterre , I may say.
10 Lupinus sat silent and confused in the parterre , near Joseph.
11 Guy takes inordinate pride in his parterre , arranges and overlooks all the flowers himself.
12 In this wasted solitude you meet, all of a sudden, the most smiling parterre .
13 They had crossed the parterre by this time, and were almost at the window.
14 O'er the parterre spread the incense-clouds a canopy right fair:
15 For now a most variegated garden parterre met my sight.
16 The analogy can scarcely hold farther than in a parterre ; and even there very imperfectly.
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