mid-terrace

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Etymology[edit]

mid- +‎ terrace

Noun[edit]

mid-terrace (plural mid-terraces)

  1. (UK) A terraced house.
    • 2011, Philip Spires, Mission:
      They pooled the considerable sums and added another huge mortgage, this time based on two substantial incomes, and bought, at the start of the 1980s, the elegant, tall mid-terrace in Canonbury they still owned []
    • 2016, Jonathan Dodds, A Spell in Winter:
      So they still weren't really speaking when they found themselves at their destination for the evening – a Victorian mid-terrace on three floors almost identical to their own – and suddenly obliged to affect looks of anticipation and pleasure.

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