terrasseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

terrasse (plural terrasses)

1. (Quebec) Terrace, patio.
2. (heraldry) A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.

動詞

terrasse (third-person singular simple present terrasses, present participle terrassing, simple past and past participle terrassed)

1. To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
   • 1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:

     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.

   • 1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19:

     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.

アナグラム

• Resetars, asserter, rearsets, reassert, serrates