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a flat shelf carved from a hillside so gravity stops eating your dinner
means A raised, flat outdoor platform or level area — whether a paved patio beside a house, a row of houses on a step of ground, or one of a series of horizontal steps cut into a slope.
from From Old French 'terrasse,' a platform or pile of earth, by way of Vulgar Latin 'terracea,' meaning an earthen embankment — itself rooted in Latin 'terra,' earth. The same 'terra' that grows in territory, terrain, and terracotta (literally 'cooked earth'). So a terrace is, at heart, just shaped ground — a bit of the earth flattened and propped up to be stood upon.
- rice steps
- Philippine rice terraces span 2,000 years of farming
- hanging legend
- Babylon's famed gardens may have been terraced lies
- city slang
- British row houses get called terraces too
- erosion fix
- Terracing slows water and stops soil washing away
cinque terre — unesco site with 5 clifftop villages in italy connected by ancient terraced vineyards since the 12th century
banaue rice terraces — 2,000-year-old hand-carved terraces in the philippines's cordillera mountains, built by the ifugao people
zhangjiajie glass terrace — suspended walkway 1,430 meters above ground on a cliff in hunan, china, opened 2016