a level space in a garden occupied by an ornamental arrangement of flower beds 花坛,花圃
(chiefly US)the part of the ground floor of a theatre auditorium behind the orchestra pit, especially the part beneath the balconies (主美)剧院堂座(尤指楼座下方部分)
语源
early 17th cent.: from French, from par terre 'on the ground'