terrace
terrace.
1. Embankment or prepared and levelled mass of earth in e.g. a garden.
2. Any artificial or built level platform for promenading, with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, etc., and sometimes having a balustrade, often adjacent to a coun-try-house.
3. One of several platforms, as on a hillside or in a stadium, furnished with seats.
4. Loggia or external usable space, e.g. roof-garden.
5. Series of houses joined together in one row, as in the Georgian terraces of the British Isles.
1. Embankment or prepared and levelled mass of earth in e.g. a garden.
2. Any artificial or built level platform for promenading, with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, etc., and sometimes having a balustrade, often adjacent to a coun-try-house.
3. One of several platforms, as on a hillside or in a stadium, furnished with seats.
4. Loggia or external usable space, e.g. roof-garden.
5. Series of houses joined together in one row, as in the Georgian terraces of the British Isles.
Bibliography
S. Muthesius (1982)
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