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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1583-1699
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Tarras, n.2 Also: tarrase, tarres, torres. [e.m.E. terres (1515), terrasse (1579), tarrasse (1579-80), tarres (1587), tarras (1599), f. as Tarras,n.1] A terrace. Also attrib.(a) 1583 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 310.
Ane fair gallery [is to be] beildit on the ane syd of the said work withe ane tarras on the uther syde 1585 Elphinstone Mun. 22.
Within the hall besyde the tarres … tua long formis c1590 Fowler II 185/27.
These [sc. knights'] names wer proclaimed upon the tarrase of the forefront of the castell, with sound of trumpets 1622 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 142.
For furneishing of lyme sand hair and panecrache for bigging and making watterticht of the tua grit tarrassis round about [sc. at Falkland Palace] 16… Abercrummie in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 9.
Orchards adorned with excellent tarrases and the walls loaden with peaches(b) 1629 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 255.
To Robert Norie and James Rynd maissones … for hewing of xxxv balesteris for the law torresattrib. 1585 Elphinstone Mun. 23.
Ane ball of irne for the tarres ȝet 1628 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 236.
Tua doore lokis mending the ane to the tarres doore 1669 Lauder Jrnl. 196.
Theirs a garden, bouling grein, tarraswalk [etc.]
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