Of garments for the lower body: having a waistline below the natural waist.
Used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low.
1The violence has overwhelmed the shabby, low-rise city and destroyed its economy.
2Today its 315ft clocktower soars above the low-rise buildings of central Washington.
3The portfolio is known as VXV and comprises seven low-rise office buildings.
4My Montreal condo is on the ground floor of a U-shaped low-rise.
5Phnom Penh's low-rise skyline is dotted with Chinese cranes and construction projects.
6Until the mid-1960s, Dublin's low-rise skyline was not punctured by tall buildings.
7Some low-rise buildings collapsed, and roads were cut in two by landslides.
8He sits on a three-legged wooden stool, hunched over a low-rise workbench.
9Duplexes and low-rise apartments lined the street, red brick, plain, and functional.
10Instead I propose that we consider a different housing type, low-rise high-density housing.
11It was envisaged as a low-density, low-rise city of light industry and convenience.
12Most of Dublin apart from 13 specific areas falls into the low-rise category.
13The incident occurred in a largely rural area surrounded by low-rise warehouse buildings.
14Suddenly the low-rise Asia n environment is transformed into a skyscraper.
15These can include a mix of low-rise blocks and individual houses.
16Both are low-rise schemes, three storeys high, and finished to an exacting standard.