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.
unterraced
-
a word derived from
terrace.
Example Sentences
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Clam gardens grow four times more butter clams and twice as many littleneck clams as unterraced beaches do, according to a study of dozens of ancient clam gardens around Quadra Island, British Columbia.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2022
It appears from Mr. Cook's studies that the deforestation of the Cuzco Basin by the hand of man, and modern methods of tillage on unterraced slopes, have caused an unusual amount of erosion to occur.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
In some instances doors occur in the second stories of unterraced walls, their sills being 5 or 6 feet above the ground.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
This was not easy to find; the terraces were too narrow, and the ground, where it was unterraced, was usually too steep for a man to lie upon.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
To come in a few hours, from thickly terraced Colta to unterraced Lampa was so striking as to give us cause for thought and speculation.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
