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‖ terra a terra Obs.
Also 7 terra terra, (territerr).
[It. terra terra level with the ground, influenced by corresp. F. terre à terre, Sp. tierra á tierra: see also terre-à-terre.]
1. An artificial gait formerly taught to horses, resembling a low curvet.
[1611Cotgr., Manege de terre à terre, a manage more low, and more quicke then the ordinarie gallop, or curuet.] 1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 29 In this practise you teach him [the horse] perfectly three lessons together, that is the turne Terra Terra, the Incavalare, and the Chambetta. a1648Ld. Herbert Life (1886) 74 The most useful aer, as the Frenchmen term it, is territerr. 1730Bailey (folio), Terra a terra..is a Series of low Leaps made by the Horse forward, bearing Sideways, and working upon two Treads.
2. = terre-à-terre.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Terra a terra..applied by the French to dancers, who cut no capers, nor scarce quit the ground. And hence it is also figuratively applied to authors, whose style and diction is low and creeping. |