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.
1 The violence has overwhelmed the shabby, low - rise city and destroyed its economy.
2 Today its 315ft clocktower soars above the low - rise buildings of central Washington.
3 The portfolio is known as VXV and comprises seven low - rise office buildings.
4 My Montreal condo is on the ground floor of a U-shaped low - rise .
5 Phnom Penh's low - rise skyline is dotted with Chinese cranes and construction projects.
6 Until the mid-1960s, Dublin's low - rise skyline was not punctured by tall buildings.
7 Some low - rise buildings collapsed, and roads were cut in two by landslides.
8 He sits on a three-legged wooden stool, hunched over a low - rise workbench.
9 Duplexes and low - rise apartments lined the street, red brick, plain, and functional.
10 Instead I propose that we consider a different housing type, low - rise high-density housing.
11 It was envisaged as a low-density, low - rise city of light industry and convenience.
12 Most of Dublin apart from 13 specific areas falls into the low - rise category.
13 The incident occurred in a largely rural area surrounded by low - rise warehouse buildings.
14 Suddenly the low - rise Asia n environment is transformed into a skyscraper.
15 These can include a mix of low - rise blocks and individual houses.
16 Both are low - rise schemes, three storeys high, and finished to an exacting standard.
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