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low-rise
[ loh-rahyz ]
adjective
- having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.
- (of pants) having a waistline placed at or just below the hips:
low-rise jeans.
noun
- a low-rise building.
low-rise
noun
- such a building
Word History and Origins
Origin of low-rise1
Example Sentences
This is one of those incredibly hip places that looks like a low-rise apartment building.
At the foot of the lone tree hill they came again side by side, and so mounted the next low rise of ground.
The party of Indians were on a low rise several miles distant as we came out of the shelter of the high plateau.
I checked him to a sharp trot until we had passed the first low rise of rolling land which hid my movements from the city.
Carrie watched him from the homestead until at last he sank behind the crest of a low rise.
Carrie looked out into the soft moonlight, and saw a mounted figure cut against the sky on the crest of a low rise.
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