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tarrace

tarrace is the obsolete form of trass.

Meaning of trass

Noun

trass (countable and uncountable, plural trasses)

  1. A whitish, greyish volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement.
  2. (dated) A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, formerly used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

Forms of tarrace

pluraltarraces

Questions about tarrace

What is tarrace the obsolete form of?
Tarrace is the obsolete form of trass.

Words near tarrace in the dictionary

  1. Tarquinios
  2. Tarquins
  3. tarr
  4. Tarra Valley
  5. tarrable
  6. tarrace
  7. tarraces
  8. tarradiddle
  9. tarradiddler
  10. tarradiddlers
  11. tarradiddles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarrace (page history and authors); trass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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