ppl. a. [f. TERRACE sb. or v. + -ED.] Formed into or furnished with a terrace or terraces; arranged or constructed in terrace form.

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  In quot. 1644, Furnished with a colonnade or covered ambulatory.

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1644.  Evelyn, Diary, 4 Nov. The court is square and tarrass’d.

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1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 1429. To Clermont’s terrass’d height, and Esher’s groves.

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1797.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Ital., i. Its terraced roofs crowded with spectators.

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1832.  W. Irving, Alhambra, I. 62. At length we are upon the terraced roof, and may take breath for a moment.

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1869.  Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 108. The dwellings … are … niched … in the terraced cliffs.

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1880.  C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 365. The space between being sown with rice in terraced fields.

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1904.  J. T. Fowler, Durh. Univ., 63. The rebuilt keep conspicuous on a terraced mound.

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