1880 ‘M. Twain’ xxxv. 397 This pile of stone..comes down out of the clouds in a succession of rounded, colossal, terrace-like projections.
1963 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 iii. 28 These terrace-like features [sc. strip lynchets] on hillsides are the remains of medieval strip cultivation.