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  • n  a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor

  • A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each .
  • Tolerance would urge that such productions are not intended to be read at all but to form an expensive, highly colored, temporary parquetry for the playroom floor.
  • Last week on the waxed parquetry of a Manhattan ballroom, which had been chartered for the 21st Annual Automobile Salon, stood some 100 of the cars of the more expensive .

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