gradins

And back where I come from the "gradins" are placed in a field -- and not within a two-thousand-years old stone arène.

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

And back where I come from the "gradins" are placed in a field -- and not within a two-thousand-years old stone arène.

French Word-A-Day: 2009

And back where I come from the "gradins" are placed in a field -- and not within a two-thousand-years old stone arène.

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

And back where I come from the "gradins" are placed in a field -- and not within a two-thousand-years old stone arène.

French Word-A-Day: 2009

Hmmm from gradins, to bleachers, to terraces, that's it! et merci encore pour "the bleachers".

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

My dictionary told me that the US word “bleachers” (a new word for me) means the same as “terraces” (GB) and so, is the translation for the French “gradins” (rows of seats sloping upwards).

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

I would like to know how “les gradins” of a stadium or an amphitheatre became “bleachers” in the US.

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

Having been to events in several of the Roman arenas in Provence, I've always been impressed at how HARD those stone gradins can be!

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

Les gradins ... we call them bleachers, back where I come from.

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

Gary: your note about how hard the stone gradins are reminds me that I forgot an important point: we were seated on bleachers that were placed * over* the ancient stone slabs (or over a section of the arene ..).

gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009