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Terrace

noun

Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence. Synonym: patio.

A level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below). Synonym: bench.

A row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face).

verb

(past & past part. terraced; pres. part. terracing)

Provide (a house) with a terrace. Synonym: terrasse.

Make into terraces as for cultivation.

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"Terrace" Quotes from Famous Books

... Germain was not an easy thing either. Nearly all Paris had taken refuge in this little place, which is as pretty as it is dull. From the height of the terrace, where the crowd remained morning and night, we could see the alarming progress of ...

— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt

... Malcolm would take a boat and float down the stream past the convent walls, and Ronald would wonder which of the figures whose heads he could perceive as they walked upon the terrace, was that of his mother. It was not until Malcolm had become quite at home with Madame Vipon that he again turned the conversation towards the convent. He learned that she had often been inside the walls, for before her marriage she had worked at a farm whence the convent drew a portion of its ...

— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty

... fine Lord de Adhemar; a fool, a rattle-head, a booby; but he is handsome, and a jolly lover. Our queen likes handsome men, and everybody knows that she is one of the laughing kind, a merry fly, particularly since the carousals on the palace terrace." ...

— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... part of one winter at a point on the Rio Negro, seventy or eighty miles from the sea. It was my custom to go out every morning on horseback with my gun, and, followed by one dog, to ride away from the valley; and no sooner would I climb the terrace and plunge into the gray universal thicket, than I would find myself as completely alone as if five hundred instead of only five miles separated me from the valley and river. So wild and solitary and remote seemed that gray waste, stretching away into infinitude, a waste ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... of the last day the major and young ladies drove off to the castle for a farewell view. Helen began to sketch the great stone lion's head above the grand terrace, the major smoked and chatted with a party of English artists whom he had met, and Amy, with a little lad for a guide, explored the old castle ...

— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott

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