parterre

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /pɑːˈtɛə/    美 /pɑːɹˈtɛɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
    — The window opened towards a most lovely garden, whose smooth turf and gorgeous parterres swept down to the river.
  2. A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
    — Parham House, near Pulborough in West Sussex, has a four-acre walled garden that was restored in the Twenties and has been maintained at a high level ever since. It is divided into four areas, one of which is filled by the cut-flower borders and a box-enclosed parterre. […] It is traditional in a parterre to mix flowers and veg, but this relaxed jungle of productive plants, packed in tight together, is lusher and more beautiful than the more usual Villandry style, where single or pairs of plants are used.
  3. A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.
    — That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
  4. A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.; The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.
  5. A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.; The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit. UK
  6. That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class. broadly
  7. An apartment balcony. New-York,US

词形变化

parterres plural

词汇关系

衍生词
parterred

词源

Borrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).
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