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terraced

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ter·race  (trs)
n.
1.
a. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.
b. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
2. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
3. A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.
4. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
5.
a. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
b. A section of row houses.
c. Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
6. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
7. Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking. See Regional Note at parking.
tr.v. ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
1. To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.
2. To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.

[French, from Old French, from Old Provençal terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrcea, feminine of *terrceus, earthen, from Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots.]
Translations
terraced [ˈterəst] ADJ (= layered) [hillside, garden] → en terrazas, terraplenado; (= in a row) [house, cottage] → adosado
terraced gardensjardines mpl formando terrazas, jardines mpl colgantes

terraced [ˈtɛrəst] adj
[garden] → en terrasses; [hillside] → en terrasses
terrace house terraced house n (British)maison faisant partie d'une rangée de maisons identiques)f mitoyenne >

terraced
adj
hillside etcterrassenförmig or stufenförmig angelegt; gardenin Terrassen angelegt
(esp Brit) streetmit Reihenhäusern; terraced houseReihenhaus nt

terraced [ˈtɛrɪst] adj (layered, hillside, garden) → terrazzato/a, a terrazze; (in a row, house, cottage) → a schiera
terraced [ˈtɛrɪst] adj (layered, hillside, garden) → terrazzato/a, a terrazze; (in a row, house, cottage) → a schiera

terraced مزود بشرفة stupňovitý terrasseret terrassenförmig με πεζούλι adosado, adosado en hilera rivi- mitoyenne nanizan a schiera テラスを設けた 계단식의 van terrassen voorzien terrasseformet w zabudowie szeregowej ladeado por outras casas террасированный terrasserad ทำให้ลดหลั่นเป็นชั้น sıra evler theo dãy 行列式的(住宅)


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All round it the tiny terraced fields lay out like aprons of patchwork on the knees of the mountain, and cows no bigger than beetles grazed between the smooth stone circles of the threshing-floors.
The steep hillside, from the castle clear down to the water's edge, is terraced, and clothed thick with grape vines.
A hollow like a great amphitheatre, full of terraced steps and misty olives, now lay between them and the heights of Fiesole, and the road, still following its curve, was about to sweep on to a promontory which stood out in the plain.
 
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