Terrasse
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Terrace, patio. Quebec
- 2 A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.
- 1 To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
"However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch."
- 2 provide (a house) with a terrace wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch."
Etymology
From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
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