parging

1. (construction) A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls; a parge.Examples: "Although all of the mortar pargings were crazed, the effects of weathering were most apparent in the top pargings and in the top courses of the walls."; "Concrete to receive hot-applied dampproofing will not need a coat of parging unless the wall is honeycombed, pockmarked, or otherwise too rough for the dampproofing to properly cover."; "Parging is a single layer of mortar applied directly to the wall with a trowel so that it covers the entire surface. Parges generally are rough and cover the whole masonry surface, but at times they are only applied to the joints or recessed portions of the stonework."countableuncountable

2. (construction, loosely) Pargeting.broadlycountableuncountable