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terraced house

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noun

  1. US and Canadian names: row house.   town house.  a house that is part of a terrace

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Our home was a compact, two-story terraced house with a back garden and a little lean-to greenhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

"It was nothing back in the day, just a normal house like a terraced house with a couple of lights up," she said.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

Their four-bedroom terraced house, which is up for sale, has steep steps up to the front door, a narrow hallway and an upstairs bathroom.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2025

At the time of his death in 2021, Charles Haxton was living alone in a terraced house in Tooting, south London.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2025

He remembered no intervening time, no sore feet—but here he was, addressing in the politest terms an old lady who stood in the doorway of a flat-fronted terraced house.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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