terracen.
/ˈtɛrəs/ 1. † c. Military. An earthwork thrown up by a besieging force; see also quot. 1816. Obsolete.
a. A raised level place for walking, with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, and sometimes having a balustrade; esp. a raised walk in a garden, or a level surface formed in front of a house on naturally sloping ground, or on the bank of a river, as ‘The Terrace’ at the Palace of Westminster.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > on top of a building or wall
platform1531
terrace?1578
terracing1826
α.
β. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 570 Lucullus selfe would also many times be amongst them, in those tarrasses and pleasant walkes.1587 T. Churchyard Worthines of Wales sig. N2v Like tarres trim, to take the open ayre.1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Eiii Stand by, close vnder this Tarras . View more context for this quotation1625 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Grand Signors Seraglio i, in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. xv. 1583 There might two men walke abreast vpon the Terrase.1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) ii. ii. iv. 269 Euery Citty..hath his peculiar walkes, Cloysters, Tarraces.?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 67 Hard all along the Castl wall iz reared a pleazaunt Terres of a ten foot hy & a twelue brode.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. ix. 11 And the king made..terrises to the house of the Lord. View more context for this quotation
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 333 Terrasse, a walk on a Bank or Bulwark.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. ii. xviii. 47 It might be allow'd twelve [foot] or more, it being a Terras,..since the Terrasses adjoyning to a House can hardly ever be too broad.
1712 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 8 Dec. (1965) I. 175 The terrace is my place consecrated to meditation.
1739 T. Gray Let. 21 Nov. in Corr. (1971) I. 129 Gardens and marble terrases full of orange and cypress trees.
1786 Mrs. Barbauld in Mem. 70 Y. (1883) vi. 62 A kind of terrass..commands a most extensive view.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 114 The garden..was laid out in terraces, which descended rank by rank from the western wall to a large brook. View more context for this quotation
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 69 The glass door open towards the terrace.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3v A tarrasse for a wandring and variable minde, to walke vp and downe. View more context for this quotation
1655 M. Carter Anal. Honor in Honor Rediv. 103 A gennet of gold enamelled balck and red, upon a Terrasse or bank of flowers.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 399 These rows of aludels are supported from end to end by a terrass, which runs from the body of the building, wherein the furnaces are erected.
1896 Daily News 10 Nov. 2/2 The living terraces of cripple children..added..their shrill plaudits to the general welcome.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > mine(s) > part of
countermure1553
terrace1579
chamber1638
well1702
trench cavalier1798
shaft1834
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xi. 615 Certayne of the Spanishe footemen got vp to the terrasse or heape of earth, and began to assayle the breache.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. v. 182 What should I speake of the tarraces, torteises, rams, and all other engins of assault and batterie?
1816 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 4) (at cited word) A terrace likewise signified..a sort of cavalier, which was carried to a great height, in order to overlook and command the walls of a town.
d. Archaeology. = cultivation terrace n. at cultivation n. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation
round tilth1723
infield and outfield1733
terrace1796
superculture1835
terrace-cultivation1860
terrace-culture1863
conservation tillage1897
monoculture1901
strip farming1913
polyculture1915
sailab1916
shifting cultivation1922
strip-cultivation1932
shifting agriculture1934
strip-cropping1936
podu1938
contour terracing1939
strip system1954
swiddening1971
monocropping1974
1796 Gentleman's Mag. 66 822/1 On the declivities of the elevated and chalky tracts of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and other counties, there very frequently occurs a beautiful assemblage of terraces, mostly horizontal, and rising in a continued series like the steps of Egyptian pyramids... These, which are commonly arable,..are popularly called lynchets... They are generally regarded in the neighbourhood as the offspring of human exertion in remote ages, to facilitate and extend the dominion of the plough.
a1964 G. Underwood Pattern of Past (1968) viii. 82 Terraces..are found on steep hillsides, and..mark places where a number of geodetic lines run parallel, with wide spaces between them... It seems reasonable to assume that they formed processional ways.
e. At an Association Football or other sports ground, a range of steps or tiers providing accommodation for standing spectators; one of these steps or tiers (usually in plural). Also attributive in singular. Cf. terracing n. 1b.
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society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] > accommodation for spectators
scaffold1470
scaffolding1537
stand1615
pergolaa1641
box seat1779
spectatory1829
ringside1849
box1860
ring-seat1889
ringside seat1897
terracing1902
terrace1950
1950 Sport 7 Apr. 2/1 The terrace regulars are..the backbone of many present day clubs.
1959 Listener 19 Feb. 332/2 As I saw them from the terraces, I learnt that on top of everything else..they often had to play against their own supporters.
1971 Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 3/7 Fighting broke out on the terraces during the Port Vale ‘friendly’ match against Manchester City at Vale Park.
1977 Times 6 May 2/5 [The] Minister of State for Sport..imposed his ban on the sale of terrace tickets to Chelsea supporters at away games.
1980 Observer 7 Sept. 11/6 It was more like a football terrace than Lord's.
2. A natural formation of this character. † c. The ground on which anything stands. rare.
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a. a table-land.
b. spec. in Geology, a horizontal shelf or bench on the side of a hill, or sloping ground.The latter is usually of soft material, formed by the action of water, and exposed by the upheaval of the sea-margin, by the deepening of a river channel, or by the diminution in volume of a lake or river.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [noun]
shelvea1701
ledge1732
terrace1753
bench1791
lynchet1797
shelf1807
benching1809
offset1856
cultivation terrace1863
terracing1863
mantelshelf1897
cultivation-bank1913
mantelpiece1920
terracette1922
berm1931
1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 202 The white mountains,..the highest Terrasse in New-England.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxxvii. 235 Some of the steepest hills are supported by many terrasses.
1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. ii. 151 Captain Vetch describes six or seven terraces or lines of beach on the Isle of Jura.., which appear to have been successively raised above the present level of the ocean.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xvii. 278 It is not uncommon to find successive terraces of gravel.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vi. v. 901 Regular terraces, corresponding to former water-levels of the lake, run for miles along the shores at heights of 120, 150 and 200 ft.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > condition of being placed under > that which lies under > base on which a thing rests
staddlea900
groundc950
base?c1335
standinga1382
foundation1398
basingc1400
bottom1440
subjecta1500
groundworka1557
basis?a1560
pedestal1563
understand1580
footwork1611
centrea1616
underwork1624
skaddle1635
substructure1641
foot piece1657
pediment1660
seat1661
sedes1662
under-warp1668
plantationa1680
terrace1735
substructure1789
footing1791
seating1805
1735 A. Mahon tr. Labat Art of Fencing (new ed.) Pref. By turning it too much it [the foot] would have no hold of the terrace.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun]
oriela1400
terrace1515
poy1636
porte-cochère1838
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > balcony or circle
upper circle1586
balcony1718
dress circle1812
mezzanine1927
terrace1961
1515 Will of Jane Fowler (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/14) f. 223v To be buried wt in the Terres of the church of the Monastery of Syon.
1588 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 692 For paving the Inner court and the tarris without it.
1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. i. 17 Wee haue dyned abroad in our Tarrises and open Galleries for the great heat.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 145 This yard is compassed with a building all of Marble, which lies open like a Cloyster (we call it a terras).
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 206 This place of Iudgement is commonly in a Porch or Terras under the Senate-house, hauing one side all open towards the market place.
1690 tr. U. Chevreau Great Scanderberg 131 A little Terrass, which rendred my Apartment very pleasant.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 258 Tarrace, or Tarras, an open Walk, or Gallary.
1961 Repertory of Arts 10/1 The auditorium's shallow terraces—only six rows deep at the back and two to four seats wide at the sides—surround the orchestra level and flow towards the orchestra platform [in the Philharmonic Hall at the Lincoln Center, N.Y.].
1963 Guardian 5 Mar. 7/3 The music sounds better in the top terrace..than in the lower terraces and orchestra.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally
vaulta1387
plat-roofa1425
pend1454
faunsere1460
compassed roofa1552
terrace1572
sotie1578
crown1588
arch-roof1594
arch1609
under-roof1611
concameration1644
voltoa1660
hip roof1663
French roof1669
oversail1673
jerkinhead1703
mansard1704
curb-roof1733
shed roof1736
gable roof1759
gambrel roof1761
living roof1792
pent roof1794
span-roof1823
wagon-head1823
azotea1824
rafter roof1825
rooflet1825
wagon-vault1835
bell-roof1842
spire-roof1842
cradle-roof1845
packsaddle roof1845
open roof1847
umbrella roof1847
gambrel1848
packsaddle1848
compass-roof1849
saddleback1849
saddle roof1850
curbed roof1866
wagon-roof1866
saw-tooth roof1900
trough roof1905
skillion roof1911
north-light roof1923
shell roof1954
green roof1984
knee-roof-
1572 Abp. M. Parker Let. 13 Dec. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 412 This shop is but little, and low, and leaded flat,..and is made like the terrace..fit for men to stand upon in any triumph or shew.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. x. 27 Many faire houses of lime and stone, builded with many lofts, with their windowes and tarrisis made of Lime and earth.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 268 To vnderprop the Terratza, or roofe.]
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 10 All the Houses of it are built with a terrass, or flat Roof, and one may go from one street to another upon the terrasses of the houses.
1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iii. iii. 93 This sleeping on the terraces of their houses is only in summer-time.
1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 203 On these roofs are ‘terraces’, guarded by high parapets, where the inmates sit in the cool of the evening.
5. A row of houses on a level above the general surface, or on the face of a rising ground; loosely, a row of houses of uniform style, on a site slightly, if at all, raised above the level of the roadway.(Common in street nomenclature; Adelphi Terrace (formerly Royal Terrace), London, is one of the earliest examples.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings
rowc1248
street of houses (also shops)1577
town-row1610
terrace1769
mews1805
strip1939
1769 Lease 23 June in Mortgage (1782) 20 Aug. A parcel of Ground..[which] adjoineth towards the north on vaults situate under the houses built on The Royal Taras [Adelphi, London].
1796 New Plan of London [has] ‘Lambeth Terrace, behind Lambeth Palace’.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 113/2 The terraces in the Regent's Park, Hyde Park Terrace near Bayswater, and that in St. James's Park.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. i. 1 My earliest recollections are of a suburban street; of its jumble of little shops and little terraces.
6. A soft spot in marble, which is cleaned out and the cavity filled up with a paste. Cf. terracy adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > marble > piece of > flaw in
terrace1877
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Terrases (Masonry), hollow defects in marble or fissures filled with nodules of other substances. The hole, being cleared out, is filled with marble dust and mastic of the same color.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Of or pertaining to, having, forming, or consisting of a terrace or terraces.
a.
terrace-bank n.
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1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 94 The terrace-banks of the Seine.
terrace-bower n.
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1823 in J. Baillie Coll. of Poems 119 Each whisper'd sigh Of the soft night-breeze through her terrace-bowers Bore softer tones.
terrace cottage n.
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1973 A. Hunter Gently French iv. 34 Adjacent to the Barge-House were three sad terrace cottages.
1978 Spectator 13 May 12/2 Neat little freshly painted two-storey terrace cottages with gardens nearby—already a century old.
terrace-garden n.
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1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 59 I went to see the Terrace-Garden of Verona, that Travellers generally mention.
1861 Queen Victoria Jrnl. 20 Sept. (1980) 99 The Castle of Auch Mill, which..has traces of a terrace garden remaining.
1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets iii. 58 Many ‘tree’ and ‘landscape’ rugs are terrace-garden rugs.
terrace-parapet n.
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1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. vii. 207 Tom sat down on a terrace-parapet, plucking buds.
terrace-region n.
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1834 Penny Cycl. II. 472/2 Ten or twelve intermediate formations, constituting the terrace-regions.
terrace-roof n.
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1802 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 161 I have a terrace roof.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Terrace Roof, those which are flat like terraces.
terrace-stair n.
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a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) iv. i Pass through the gall'ry up the tarras-stairs into my closet.
terrace-step n.
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1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xiii. 218 We soon landed at the grand terrace-steps of the quay.
terrace-walk n.
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1638 J. Suckling Aglaura iii. 24 Eleven, under the Tarras walke; I will not faile you there.
1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 174 The queens tarras walk at Whitehall, facing the Thames, is now finished.
1707 E. Settle Siege of Troy iii. 23 The Scene opens and discovers a Grove..over a Tarras Walk, is seen a Beautiful Garden of six side Wings.
1775 J. Woodforde Diary 14 Apr. (1924) I. 151 Round it is a fine Terrass Walk which commands the whole City.
1858 M. Tuckett Diary 16 Sept. (c1975) 5 A broad terrace walk goes along the front of the new part of the house.
terrace-wall n.
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1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 25 A low Terrass-Wall, from whence you have a View of the Country round about.
terrace-work n.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xv. 108 Its edges..were abrupt precipices, resembling the terrace-work of trap-rocks.
b. Obj. and objective genitive.
terrace-keeper n.
terrace-maker n.
c.
terrace-like adj.
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1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxxv. 397 This pile of stone..comes down out of the clouds in a succession of rounded, colossal, terrace-like projections.
1963 Times 18 May 5/2 One of the finest things was his terrace-like build-up of the beginning of the allegretto from the Seventh Symphony.
1974 C. Taylor Fieldwork in Medieval Archaeol. iii. 28 These terrace-like features [sc. strip lynchets] on hillsides are the remains of medieval strip cultivation.
terrace-mantling adj.
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1824 T. Campbell Theodric 37 Clustering trees and terrace-mantling vines.
C2.
terrace-cultivation n. the cultivation of hillsides in terraces.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation
round tilth1723
infield and outfield1733
terrace1796
superculture1835
terrace-cultivation1860
terrace-culture1863
conservation tillage1897
monoculture1901
strip farming1913
polyculture1915
sailab1916
shifting cultivation1922
strip-cultivation1932
shifting agriculture1934
strip-cropping1936
podu1938
contour terracing1939
strip system1954
swiddening1971
monocropping1974
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 144 The terrace-cultivation,..clothing with fertility the mountain-sides.
1903 Bradford Antiquary July 346 Signs of terrace-cultivation are to be met with in different parts of the county.
terrace-culture n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation
round tilth1723
infield and outfield1733
terrace1796
superculture1835
terrace-cultivation1860
terrace-culture1863
conservation tillage1897
monoculture1901
strip farming1913
polyculture1915
sailab1916
shifting cultivation1922
strip-cultivation1932
shifting agriculture1934
strip-cropping1936
podu1938
contour terracing1939
strip system1954
swiddening1971
monocropping1974
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. vii. 233 The establishment of terrace culture on the hills.
terrace-epoch n. Geology see quot. 1885.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > other ages or periods
terrace-epoch1863
youth1896
secule1903
pluvial1929
interpluvial1931
intrapluvial1939
salinity crisis1967
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 554 The time when they were raised..corresponds to the Terrace epoch; and during the process other parallel terraces were formed.
1885 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. ii. ii. §3. 369 In North America, the river-terraces exist on so grand a scale that the geologists of that country have named one of the later periods of geological history, during which those deposits were formed, the Terrace Epoch.
terrace house n. one of a row of usually similar houses joined by party-walls.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style
hall-house1467
longhouse1643
bungalow1676
single housea1684
tower-house1687
villa1755
box1773
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
mews1805
cottage1808
terrace house1817
casita1822
villa dwelling1833
villa residence1833
box-house1846
six-roomer1853
terrace1854
tembe1860
moat house1871
parlour house1871
row house1871
salt-box1876
trullo1898
townhouse1900
colonial1903
semi1912
Cape Cod1916
bungaloid1927
semi-detached1928
ranchette1938
solar house1946
rambler1947
rancher1950
ranch1951
tunnel-back1957
sidesplit1958
two-up-and-two-downer1958
two-up two-down1958
semi-det1960
A-frame1963
townhouse1965
tri-level1965
link house1968
split1970
dormer bungalow1977
1817 J. Austen Sanditon in Minor Wks. (1954) x. 413 They were in one of the Terrace Houses.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 665 A terracehouse or semidetached villa.
1958 Listener 5 June 947/1 Look at the new hospital-block in Guildford Street, Bloomsbury, and see how well it goes with the old terrace-houses.
1972 Guardian 6 Nov. 15/3 The rank and file knew that the real Ulster crisis was happening inside the terrace houses.
C3. Used to designate a style of women's and girls' clothing suitable for wearing at an informal party.
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1963 Guardian 2 Feb. 5/2 A series of terrace (ex-casino) dresses.
1965 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 Oct. 24 (caption) Terrace skirt combines bright red, white, and blue in a lively outfit for girls who want to look graceful at casual parties.
1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 4 Dec. 3/8 (advt.) A fabulous collection of the popular terrace gowns.
1972 Times 19 Dec. 11/3 I do not like the idea of little girls in low-cut evening dresses..but I do think that the pale blue terrace two-piece..is a delight.
Derivatives
ˈterracer n. one who stands or walks on a terrace: cf. terracing n. 2.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > for amusement or display
terracer1786
promenader1789
1786 F. Burney Diary 7 Aug. (1842) III. 62 All the terracers stand up against the walls, to make a clear passage for the Royal Family.
ˈterrace-wards adv. towards the terrace.
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1909 Daily Chron. 20 July 1/1 Pilgrims who arrived on the Westminster Bridge and bent their gaze terrace-wards.
ˈterrace-wise adv. in the manner of a terrace.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adverb] > in the manner of a flat roof
terrace-wise1638
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [adverb]
terrace-wise1898
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 156 Each shop..archt above and..atop tarraswise framed, and with plaister..cemented.
1898 Daily News 19 May 7/1 St. Pierre, Martinique,..nestles terrace-wise against and amid a perfect paradise of greenery.
Draft additions March 2007
A terraced house.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style
hall-house1467
longhouse1643
bungalow1676
single housea1684
tower-house1687
villa1755
box1773
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
mews1805
cottage1808
terrace house1817
casita1822
villa dwelling1833
villa residence1833
box-house1846
six-roomer1853
terrace1854
tembe1860
moat house1871
parlour house1871
row house1871
salt-box1876
trullo1898
townhouse1900
colonial1903
semi1912
Cape Cod1916
bungaloid1927
semi-detached1928
ranchette1938
solar house1946
rambler1947
rancher1950
ranch1951
tunnel-back1957
sidesplit1958
two-up-and-two-downer1958
two-up two-down1958
semi-det1960
A-frame1963
townhouse1965
tri-level1965
link house1968
split1970
dormer bungalow1977
1854 Times 19 July 9/2 If a few rows of terraces, more or less, were placed upon it [sc. Hampstead-heath], no possible injury could accrue to the health-seekers.
1894 Bull. (Sydney) 3 Feb. 13/1 Formerly, the grasping ‘trap’, hurrying to get rich and own his little terrace, moved heaven and earth to get on to a ‘Chow’ beat.
1959 J. Cary Captive & Free 41 The mid-town terraces which can and have so easily become slum tenements.
1984 J. Rogers Her Living Image xviii. 197 Beyond the mills..were the rows of terraces—mean little houses, with low ceilings and dark cramped rooms.
2006 Sun (Nexis) 20 July Colette..and Tony..will still keep their modest terrace..because they want to retain links to friends.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
terracev.
1. transitive. To form into a terrace or raised bank; to fashion or arrange in terraces. Also to terrace up. (Chiefly in passive until 19th cent.; cf. terraced adj.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > embank > form into bank
terrace1650
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 382 The ascent..was..terrased on both sides with Pillasters made of..Almuggin trees.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 13 The Walls also being well Terrassed.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. v. 19 Mountains terrass'd high with mossy stone.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. viii. §3 The plots, terrassed up one above another, are often not above four feet wide.
1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan I. 85 Fields formed by terracing sloping ground.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 7 Oct. 2/2 The Kusi River in Bengal..brings down enormous quantities of silt,..making fertile plains, terracing the land, changing its bed, destroying forests.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with balcony or terrace
platform1578
terrace1615
gallery1616
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 31 [Minarets] tarrast aloft on the out side like the maine top of a ship.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 260 Which [light] we must now supply..by Tarrasing any Story which is in danger of darknesse.
1631 T. Heywood Londons Ius Honorarium in Wks. (1874) IV. 276 A faire and curious structure archt and Tarrest aboue.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 49 The houses..are flat and tarrased atop.
3. intransitive (nonce-use.) To rise in terraces (in quot. 1900, used of ranges of houses).
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1900 Speaker 29 Dec. 342/1 Pink and white and blue tenements..terrace recklessly above each other from the river to the sky-line.
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