hard-surface
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of hard-surface
An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
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During Bomba Estéreo’s energizing set, a dozen or so kids, some atop their parents’ bouncing shoulders, grooved to the vibrantly clopping percussion on the hard-surface dance floor laid in front of the stage.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
With two miles of hard-surface trails and four miles of natural-surface trails, you can select which hike best suits your family.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
The bottom of the rug pad is made from the same grippy, latex-free synthetic material commonly used in yoga mats, making it ideal for wood and other hard-surface floors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2020
Normally, hard-surface tennis courts are green or blue.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2018
There was not even a hard-surface road in the thirteen United States until 1794; nor even a postage stamp until 1847, the year in which Alexander Graham Bell was born.
From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton
Greenspan and Wooldridge: “All America’s hard-surfaced roads in 1900, laid end to end, would not have stretched from New York to Boston, or 215 miles.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2021
The segment inside Rapid City would be hard-surfaced.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2015
Only 1,945 out of 4,300-odd miles are hard-surfaced.
From Time Magazine Archive
The occasion was last week's opening of the new hard-surfaced highway from the border town of Coutts to Lethbridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the seventeenth century Marshal Maurice de Saxe rediscovered cadenced marching which, along with the hard-surfaced roads of France, had remained buried since the time of the Romans.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
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