Crossword-Solution: PARQUETS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

When the richer portion of its inhabitants have left the hot and sultry town, or, in mid-winter, are immersed in the more exclusive pleasures of fashionable life, even then the theatres are thronged; and in September and October you shall find all parts of the country represented in their boxes and parquets,--proving that this is not an exclusively metropolitan taste, that it is shared by the whole nation, that in this also New York is truly representative.

Floor patterns, parquets and carpets, for instance, naturally demand different treatment from wall patterns, as those orders of plants in nature which cling and spread on the flat ground differ from those which grow high and maintain themselves in the air, or climb upon trees.

With shrieks of triumph, they filled the _salon_ that had known for generations only the graces and beauty of life; and clattered over the shining parquets that had been swept so long by the skirts of fair women.

The cottage was all in summer array; the carpets taken up and packed away, leaving the smooth, yellow pine floors clean and cool as the French parquets.

Cool marble rooms, polished parquets, flowers in masses--a sense of grateful freshness with reminders of the heat outside in the dancing reflections from the sea.