Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An old spelling of terrace.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See trass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of trass.

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Examples

  • Under the Urras of the imaUefr room there was a coarfer tarras, fully 10 inches thick, which feemed introded to fuftain or bear a more confiderable fire under it, than tbe Hypocaujlttm of iLe largeft room.

    The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes 1791

  • Dugdale, speaking of the recent improvements of the Inn, says, "And the last was the enlargement of their garden, beautifying with a large tarras walk on the west side thereof, and raising the wall higher towards Lincoln's Inne

    A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

  • II.), the charge thereof amounting to a little less than a thousand pounds, by reason that the levelling of most part of the ground, and raising the tarras, required such great labor. "

    A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

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