Terrace

Terrace

1. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades. Flowers were planted all along the edge of the terrace.
2. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or an apartment building. We turned the terrace into a patio.
1. In agriculture, a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms. They turned the hillside into terraces for farming.

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Shown are terraced rice fields in Yunnan, China