? Obs. Forms: see prec.; also 5 terys, 8 terass. [In later use app. f. TARRAS sb.; but in earlier use prob. f. F. terracer, terrasser in some of its senses: see TERRACE v.] trans. To cover, coat, or lay with plaster; in later use, with tarras. Hence Tarrassed ppl. a.
1485. Churchw. Acc. St. Mary at Hill (Nichols, 1797), 94. Paid the Dawber for terysing of floris per day 8d.
1611. Florio, Pauimentare, to paue, to terrace.
1615. trans. De Monfart’s Surv. E. Indies, 7. The houses within the Cittie are lowe enough, vaulted under, and tarassed on the top.
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4163/1. His Royal Highness has ordered the Towers of the old Castle … to be vaulted and terrassed, to prevent the Effect of the Bombs.
1764. Harmer, Observ., I. iii. 89. An upper-story, which is flat on the top and either terraced with hard plaister, or paved with stone.
1789. Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2), II. 235. The plants were … put in a stone cistern, well terassed.
1795. Statist. Acc. Scot., XVI. 4. [The] space under the tarrass’d floor was filled with earth.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 492. [Great Wall of China] being terrassed and cased with bricks.
1819. W. S. Rose, Lett., I. 117. Collecting the rain on tarrassed roors, as at Malta.
