terrasse

plural terrasses

1. QuebecTerrace, patio.
2. governmentA representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.

present singular third person terrasses · participle present terrassing · participle past terrassed · past terrassed

1. To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.

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   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