parge

Meanings

Noun

• A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls.

Verb

• To apply a parge on to a surface.

Related

Similar words

• parging

Origin

• Probably from parget (perhaps influenced by sparge), from Old French porjeter, progeter, pourgeter (compare Old French parjeter ("to cast (especially light) widely"); Middle French pourgetter (Lille and Tournai), Norman porjeter ("to plaster"); French pordjèter ("to add mortar between stones") (Liège and Namur)), from Old French por- ("through") + jeter, from Latin porro ("further; onwards") + Vulgar Latin, Late Latin iectare, from Latin iactare ("to cast, hurl, throw; to scatter, toss") (compare Latin parjactare, purjettare, pargettare, progettare).
• The noun form of parge was derived from the verb.