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mid-terrace en · NOUN

Etymology

From mid- + terrace.

Meanings

  1. (UK) A terraced house sharing side walls with others on both sides.
    • They pooled the considerable sums and added another huge mortgage, this time based on two substantial incomes, and bought, at the start of the 1980s, the elegant, tall mid-terrace in Canonbury they still owned […] 2011, Philip Spires, Mission:
    • So they still weren't really speaking when they found themselves at their destination for the evening – a Victorian mid-terrace on three floors almost identical to their own – and suddenly obliged to affect looks of anticipation and pleasure. 2016, Jonathan Dodds, A Spell in Winter:

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