terrace
noun
a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
had terraced
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past perfectof terrace.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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At great expense the Taffy King had terraced the bluff and had made to grow several blades of grass where none at all had been able to gain root before.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by James A. Cooper
