Definitions
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- adjective Having a hip roof.
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Examples
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In the distance was a hip-roofed house with the windows boarded up.
Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006
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In the distance was a hip-roofed house with the windows boarded up.
Sufficient Grace Darnell Arnoult 2006
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It is a low, hip-roofed house, studded with enormous beams, and lighted with tiny diamond window-panes.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various
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Shadynook was one of those old hip-roofed houses which the traveller of to-day meets with so frequently, scattered throughout Virginia, crowning every knoll and giving character to every landscape.
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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These greenhouses are mostly long, wide (eighteen to twenty feet), low, hip-roofed (30°) structures.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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A dozen willow trees shaded with dappling, shivering ripples of shadow the road before the mill door, and the mill itself, and the long, narrow, shingle-built, one-storied, hip-roofed dwelling house.
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The Igorot granary, the a-lang ', is a "hip-roofed" structure about 8 feet long, 5 wide, 4 feet high at the sides and 6 at the ridgepole.
The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911
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Yet he wouldn't feel contented till he'd mounted up into the toploft; 'twas one o 'them single, hip-roofed houses that don't give proper accommodation for a real garret, like Cap'n Littlepage's down here at the Landin'.
The Foreigner 1900
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The court house was an old, square, hip-roofed brick structure, whose walls, whitewashed the year before, had been splotched and discoloured by the weather.
The Colonel's Dream 1895
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There is a dim light burning in the window of yonder hip-roofed cottage beside the green; Adams and
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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