Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Parterre

Parterre , noun

[French, from par on, by (Latin per) + terre earth, ground, Latin terra. See Terrace.]

1.
(Horticulture) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
2.
The pit of a theater; the parquet. [France]