Owen

[median summit]

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[uneven cipher]

It's an audience (like a group) of novices.

[umbral sinew]

sorry to hijack but in french someone novice is bleu ?

[uneven cipher]

Yep. Un bleu to be precise, it's a noun.

[umbral sinew]

that's so interesting ! in english i believe someone new to something is green hehe

[uneven cipher]

Anyway, parterre comes from the theater world. It refers to the seats on the ground between the stalls and the rear.
Thus it also refers to the audience. And by analogy an assembly of persons.

That said, the word originally means flowerbed.