terrace

CEFRB1

/ˈtɛɹəs/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.

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You can only smoke on the terrace.
On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.
All the buildings were well kept and there were terraces everywhere, most of them full of growing things.

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On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.
1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9
All the buildings were well kept and there were terraces everywhere, most of them full of growing things.
1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210
VAN GENNEP uses, Or, on a terrace vert a tulip gules, slipped proper and crowned of the first; LOKE in Zealand has : Argent , on a terrace vert a tulip or, slipped and leaved proper.
1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 337
The whole upon a terrace gules. CREST : A coronet of nobility of five pearls. MOTTO : Omnia Pro Libertate.
1966, The Armorial who is who

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Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.