Word: parquet
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...this competition has a history, which echoes from the halls of the fourth floor MAC gymnasium to the dusty parquet of the QRAC floor...
Fortunately for us, however, it does not linger often or long at that level. As movies like this go - stately homes constantly arustle with the sound of lingerie falling gently to the parquet floors - it is quite a lively, and even occasionally a rather touching, piece. The Duchess takes in a young woman named Bess (Hayley Atwell) who is being abused by her brutish husband. In due course, she becomes the Duke's mistress, living more or less comfortably with the Duke and Georgiana. (It is a very big house.) Georgiana also takes a lover: a rising politician, Charles Grey...
Hoover was a difficult dog. Bassets are genetically narcoleptic, but ours made a case for canine Ritalin. He careered around the apartment possessed by a long-eared, drooling demon. He practiced situational bladder control on our cherry-wood parquet floors. He grew into 60 lbs. of torso with 3-in. stubs for legs, yet he could do a dead leap off the kitchen floor to swipe a pizza off the counter. Plus he bayed--a siren of woo-woos that endeared us to our condominium neighbors. But after every misdeed, he would turn his googly-eyed gaze...
...just another group of March Madness spectators. No one on the team could have predicted that the game would take on a new meaning a year later, and that it might have served the Crimson well to pay special attention to the team hoisting the championship trophy on the parquet floor...
...store, which Bonpoint executives claim is the largest luxury children's shop in the world, occupies the ground floor of a 17th century hôtel particulier and winds around a large neat garden to a newer wing. Shoppers and their parents wander through parlors with fireplaces, moldings and parquet de Versailles, and the 300-piece collection is deployed throughout. Boys' clothing is in the back, shoes are up the stairs, and there's a VIP room for celebrity clients. Children head straight for the playhouse in the center of the main parlor, and nearly everyone stops to gawk...