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noun

Terrace n.

A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.

A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.

A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.

A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.

(Geol.) A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea. Note: Many rivers are bordered by a series of terraces at different levels, indicating the flood plains at successive periods in their history.

Terrace epoch. (Geol.) See Drift epoch, under Drift, a.

verb

Terrace v. t. (past & past part. terraced; pres. part. terracing) To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building. "Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves."

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Etymology of 'Terrace'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Terrace" Quotes from Famous Books

... ministers of state; but the great palace, [31] the centre of the Imperial residence, was fixed during eleven centuries to the same position, between the hippodrome, the cathedral of St. Sophia, and the gardens, which descended by many a terrace to the shores of the Propontis. The primitive edifice of the first Constantine was a copy, or rival, of ancient Rome; the gradual improvements of his successors aspired to emulate the wonders of ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

... My heart seemed to dilate with it. I looked at it through a telescope. I gradually defined one feature after another. The balconies of the central saloon where first I met Bianca beneath its roof; the terrace where we so often had passed the delightful summer evenings; the awning that shaded her chamber window—I almost fancied I saw her form beneath it. Could she but know her lover was in the bark whose white sail now gleamed on the sunny bosom of the sea! My fond impatience ...

— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving

... upon the terrace presently, all the world will assemble there; the lady Geraldine and myself for beauty; and then for rank, we shall have the count himself, and the baron, ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Volume I, Number 1 • Stephen Cullen Carpenter

... before their departure, he was seated with Violet on a rustic seat on the terrace, looking at the sun as it set behind the distant elms of the park, and at the deer as they grazed in lovely groups on the rich undulating slopes that swept down from the slight eminence on which his house was built. He felt that the time had ...

— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar

... lazily melting into its dream, a sound of horns and strings and wood instruments rose to his ears, and the town band began to play at the far end of the crowded terrace below to the accompaniment of a very soft, deep-throated drum. Vezin was very sensitive to music, knew about it intelligently, and had even ventured, unknown to his friends, upon the composition of quiet melodies with low-running chords which he played to himself with the soft ...

— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

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