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terrasse en · NOUN

Etymology

From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.

Meanings

  1. (Quebec) Terrace, patio.
  2. A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.

Forms

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terrasses Number=Plur lexicographic

terrasse en · VERB

Etymology

From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.

Meanings

  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. 1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:
    • Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall. 1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19:

Forms

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terrasses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
terrassed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
terrassed Tense=Past lexicographic
terrassing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic