• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: terrasse 'patio, loft'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


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English terrace 12th c. 1. 'a raised level for walking, with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf or the like, and sometimes having a balustrade, esp. a raised walk in a garden, or a level surface formed in front of a house, on naturally sloping ground or on the bank of a river', 2. 'at an association football or other sports ground, a range of steps providing accomodation for standing spectators, one of these steps or tiers', 3. 'a natural formation of this character, a table land, a horizental shelf or bench on the side of a hill or sloping ground' 1. 'an earthwork thrown up by besieging force', 2. 'the ground on which anything stands', 3. 'a gallery, open on one or both sides, a colonnade, a portico, a balcony on the outside of a building, a raised balcony or platform in a theatre or the like', 4. 'the flat roof of a house, restorted to for coolness in warm climates' OED
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German Terrasse 18th c. 1. 'form of stairs in vineyard, kind of pastry' (dial.), 2. 'balcony, floor' (dial.) '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 140
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