Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The upper story formed by the lower slope of a mansard roof.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In French, a mansard roof; a dormer-window; hence, a chamber lighted by such a window; a chamber in the roof: in English used in all these senses. See
Mansard roof , under roof.
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- adjective of a roof having two
slopes on eachside , thelower beingsteeper than theupper - noun A
mansard roof - noun The upper
storey of abuilding , surrounded by such a roof
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hip roof having two slopes on each side
- adjective (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He'd gone up there with another altar boy from Moosup; the two occupied separate rooms in the old Victorian house, a place whose long windows and mansard roof made it look like something out of the Addams Family.
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He'd gone up there with another altar boy from Moosup; the two occupied separate rooms in the old Victorian house, a place whose long windows and mansard roof made it look like something out of the Addams Family.
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It has a mansard roof, and is in northern California.
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So perhaps the architect should put in for a three-storey building with a mansard roof (which would be a couple of feet taller than the building opposite), getting the developer four storeys.
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Later, in the 1870s, with the French no longer Britain's naturalenemies, Second Empire architecture became popular, with its telltale mansard roofs, dormer windows and bracketed balconies.
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His mansard-roofed summer mansion- called Bleak House - stood at what is now 13th and Geranium until it was torn down in 1916.
Alaska was hot on the minds of many in D.C. years before it won statehood
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A man of average height must stoop under the beams of the little mansard chamber in No. 20 Bonngasse.
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A man of average height must stoop under the beams of the little mansard chamber in No. 20 Bonngasse.
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His mansard-roofed summer mansion- called Bleak House - stood at what is now 13th and Geranium until it was torn down in 1916.
Alaska was hot on the minds of many in D.C. years before it won statehood
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Late Victorian, solidly brick built, it rose through three floors of diminishingly elaborate casement windows, the uppermost arched attractively and poking out from a fine mansard roof.
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