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tierce¹
- /ˈtɪəs/ UK
- /ˈtɪɚs/ US
- /ˈtɜːs/ UK
Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)s, -ɜːs
Where it comes from
From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.
noun tierces
- A third.
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Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
Similar: terce
- A cask of a certain size, or its volume used as a measure of capacity. Larger than a barrel but smaller than a hogshead. He then gave me a large piece of silver coin, such as I never had seen or had before, and told me to get ready for the voyage, and he would credit me with a tierce of sugar, and another of rum […].
- The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
- A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
- The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height. [W]e behold two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and quart; intent to skewer one another.
- An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
- One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)
Tierce²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French Tierce.
proper noun Tierces
- A surname from French.
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