terrasse
terrasse noun: terrace, patio.
Noun
terrasse (plural terrasses)
Verb
terrasse (third-person singular simple present terrasses, present participle terrassing, simple past and past participle terrassed)
- 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...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...1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19
Forms of terrasse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | terrasses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | terrasses |
| present participle | terrassing |
| past participle | terrassed |
| past | terrassed |
Origin of terrasse
From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
Questions about terrasse
- What does terrasse mean?
- Terrasse means terrace, patio.
- What part of speech is terrasse?
- Terrasse can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of terrasse?
- The plural of terrasse is terrasses.
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