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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

Firefighters were called to the fire in a terraced house on Grafton Street at about 11:15 GMT on Friday.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2026

Zablocka's daughter remained in Poland with relatives, the court heard, while she and Podedworna initially lived in London, before moving to the terraced house in Princes Street in 2010.

From BBC Jan. 22, 2026

The damaged signal box, built in 1872, is Grade II-listed and is only a small number on the British network that is attached to a terraced house rather than freestanding.

From BBC Jul. 10, 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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