Definitions for "Parquet"
A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.
Geometrically patterned inlays usually made from woods of different colors or tones.
Joinery or inlay that has geometric or other patterns usually made from different colored woods.
The parquet is, in some countries, including France, the prosecution service. The parquet général is the prosecution service of a cour d'appel or the Cour de Cassation.
In various European public bourses, the railed-in space within which the "agents de change," or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them; -- distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.
In most European countries, the branch of the administrative government which is charged with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime, representing the public and not the individual injured.
Same as Parquetry.