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tarras

tarras 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.

Proper noun capitalized: Tarras

Tarras (plural Tarrases)

  1. A surname.

Forms of tarras

Noun
pluraltarrases
Proper noun
pluralTarrases

Questions about tarras

What does tarras mean?
Tarras means a surname.
What is tarras the obsolete form of?
Tarras is the obsolete form of trass.
What part of speech is tarras?
Tarras is a proper noun.

Words near tarras in the dictionary

  1. Tarrantine
  2. Tarrantines
  3. Tarranyurk
  4. tarrapin
  5. tarrapins
  6. tarras
  7. tarrases
  8. tarrasque
  9. tarrasques
  10. Tarrateen
  11. Tarrateens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarras (page history and authors); Tarras (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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