partenert

An obsolete form of partner. parter (pär'ter), n. [ who or that which parts or separates. The parter of the fray was night, which, with her black arms, pulled their malicious sights one from the other. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. parterre (pär-tar'), n. [= It. partere, parterre, The garden nearest the pavilion is a parterre , having in ye middst noble bra e statues. Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 27, 1644. When it [the water] has paid its tribute to the royal pile [Alhambra), and visited its gardens and parterres , it flows down the long avenue leading to the city. Irving , Alhambra, p. 64. 2. The part of the floor of a theater beneath the galleries: in some modern English theaters called the pit- a sense to be distinguished from the original meaning of pit.