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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
terraced
adjective
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terraced house
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■ NOUN
cottage
▪ Taibach, where Cis and Elfed lived, was largely a cluster of small cheap terraced cottages since demolished and unmourned.
▪ Writers, artists and Bohemians now lived in some of the tiny terraced cottages facing the quay.
▪ In addition to these yards terraced cottages that were similar in size and appearance were built to the north of Mutton Lane.
garden
▪ The view here gave on to a terraced garden within the walls.
▪ The stylish restaurant serves good cuisine and overlooks the small, adult swimming pool and a terraced garden.
▪ The picture was of a terraced garden.
▪ The main block of Broadleys faces west towards the lake above terraced gardens designed by Mr Mawson.
house
▪ The terraced house in Station Road, Darlington, is already in multiple occupancy and retrospective planning permission had been applied for.
▪ Now, he wrote, it is in a little room in a nondescript Victorian terraced house in a side-street in South London.
▪ Then we wind through interminable streets of Edwardian terraced houses converted to flats and rooms.
▪ It was a dilapidated terraced house, the only one in its row that wasn't boarded up.
▪ The theatre had been squeezed into a block of land tucked between terraced houses.
▪ Geneva Street was a row of identical terraced houses without even different front-door paint jobs to distinguish them.
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▪ A bright orange river wound between terraced houses and cleanly-painted pigeon lofts perched among the allotments.
▪ For the poorer workers, the industrialists built closely packed rows of terraced houses with very little open space.
▪ In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs, there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates.
▪ One- and two-bedroom bungalows are priced from £47,995, while two-bedroom terraced houses start from £54,950.
▪ The hotel is fully air-conditioned and boasts a terraced restaurant with views overlooking the bay.
▪ The view here gave on to a terraced garden within the walls.
▪ Then we wind through interminable streets of Edwardian terraced houses converted to flats and rooms.
▪ This was a terraced house in Jubilee Road, a street of run-down Edwardian villas.
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Terraced

Terrace \Ter"race\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Terraced; p. pr. & vb. n. Terracing.] To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.
--Sir H. Wotton.

Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves.
--Thomson.

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terraced

  1. Of, relating to, or being a terraced house. v

  2. (en-past of: terrace)

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Usage examples of "terraced".

The first two kilometres above the coves were terraced like an ancient hill farm, planted with flowering bushes and orchards tended by agronomy servitors.

The entire, magic morphogenesis is explainable as terraced chemical mechanisms.

No said Paul, striding down Penton Place and noung the runAown look of the terraced houses.

Lesley looked out the window of the study in the Stover mansion, admiring the terraced landscaping of freshly planted yellow and orange mums.

Monumental prototypes for the Tibetan terraced stupa have been excavated in Bengal and Bihar.

Nor was this terraced cultivation restricted to northern -- Sabaean, Axumite, and then Christian -- Ethiopia.

The stouthearted people, who with infinite labour have made these terraced fields, live in a row of stone houses with slate roofs bordering the rough and narrow road that runs from the Bhabar, and the plains beyond, to the inner Himalayas.

Sacred terraced basket bowls for medicine flour or meal, carried by chief priests of sacred dancers.

Penn Brown is searching for a way onto the ice, but the cliffs that loom above them, although terraced, rise up from the floor of the chasma in setbacks fifty meters high.

It is the first of the terraced benches at the edge of the great wind-carved valley of Chasma Boreale.

His view slit swung past the dark Temple of Cupay and the long stretch of terraced homes, their pastel hues fitfully lit by the dying flames in the Graveyard.

Revealing formal gardens with stone hermae, geysering fountains, lamps, a marble wellhead, terra-cotta jars tall as a man, and statues of sylphs and mythical animals so lifelike that they almost seemed to move through the boughs and terraced pathways.

The other openings overlooked a terraced slope that fell away to a creek lined with silverleaf trees.

It shows peasants amid a rustic village, terraced hillsides, a lone tree jutting from the slope of the hill to the right, a snowcapped Fuji partly eclipsed by the base of the rise.

All of the eighty-odd crewmen and crewpersons gathered around him on the terraced slope had lost weight.