terre pisé

terre pisée ter pize. [Fr. , lit. `beaten earth'.] = pisé a. Cf. cob sb.² a.

1936 V. G. Childe Man makes Himself vi. 124 Soon houses built of mud or terre pisée were being erected.

1949 W. F. Albright Archaeol. of Palestine v. 86 A concomitant of the introduction of chariotry into warfare was the spread of the art of building great fortifications of beaten earth (terre pisée), usually rectangular in plan.

1972 Y. Yadin Hazor 203 As for the claim that the earthen ramparts and terre pisée defences were first built in the MB IIA, only little has to be added here.