parterre
noun
the rear section of seats, and sometimes also the side sections, of the main floor of a theater, concert hall, or opera house.
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Country-seat terraced and arbored and parterred clear to the water's brink.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage