41.   Q. I took up the carpeting in my foyer, revealing a parquet floor, but with a lot of nails driven into the wood and not countersunk.

42.   Q. The parquet floors in the old house I just moved into are heavily waxed and pretty dull.

43.   Remember the infamous dead spots on the parquet floor of the Boston Garden?

44.   Rooms are small and rather bare, with parquet floors, but it is great if you enjoy being in the thick of things.

45.   She and her husband had to use paint thinner to clean it up, but the thinner removed the shiny finish off the brand new parquet kitchen floor.

46.   She leads her partner, a salsa teacher she is trying to convert to hustle, to the middle of the parquet floor.

47.   Smoke hangs in the air, musicians joke about their bald heads, couples shuffle around the parquet dance floor.

48.   Some renovations are so recent that chunks of plaster litter the parquet floor, and wooden door frames have yet to be painted.

49.   Sometimes this very young team creates brilliant basketball sketches on its parquet floor.

50.   Thanks also to Most, already every bit as big a Celtics tradition as the parquet floor, Auerbach, the banners and the black high-top sneakers.