Noun: terre-plein
| Singular | terre-plein |
| Plural | terre-pleins |
Sample Sentences
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The terre-plein is well and smoothly paved, and is defended by a crenellated parapet. [1878, "Peking" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVIII, p. 469]
Nouns inflected like terre-plein
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A borrowing of French terre-plein. See: French Nouns '
terre-plein'.