Question

parterre The city's park boasts a beautiful parterre with many varieties of roses. parterre*

Accepted Answer

(1) A decorative garden with paths between the beds of plants. (2) The back area of the ground floor of a theater, often under the balcony. Parterre comes to English by way of French, where it means “on the ground.” And in the early years of the theater, the parterre was truly on the ground. In Shakespeare's day, an English theater's parterre was the cheap standing-room area right in front of the stage, normally filled with rowdy spectators. The original idea of the French parterre garden, with its carefully designed plots and walkways, was to present an artistic pattern when seen from above—from a balcony, a raised terrace, or the top of an outdoor staircase. English gardeners responded with garden designs that tried to make their viewers half-forget that they were seeing something created by humans rather than untamed nature itself

word	parterre
definition	(1) A decorative garden with paths between the beds of plants. (2) The back area of the ground floor of a theater, often under the balcony.
eg_sentence	The city's park boasts a beautiful parterre with many varieties of roses.
explanation	Parterre comes to English by way of French, where it means “on the ground.” And in the early years of the theater, the parterre was truly on the ground. In Shakespeare's day, an English theater's parterre was the cheap standing-room area right in front of the stage, normally filled with rowdy spectators. The original idea of the French parterre garden, with its carefully designed plots and walkways, was to present an artistic pattern when seen from above—from a balcony, a raised terrace, or the top of an outdoor staircase. English gardeners responded with garden designs that tried to make their viewers half-forget that they were seeing something created by humans rather than untamed nature itself
IPA	parterre*

Parterre English Garden Area Theater Decorative Paths Beds