Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The material prepared for building roofs or covering them; generally the covering material only, as sheathing, shingles, slates, and the like.
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Examples
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The old shabby church showed, as usual, its quaint extent of roofage and the relievo skeleton on one gable, still blackened with the fire of thirty years ago.
Lay Morals 2005
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I looked under the broken roofage of the boughs upon a blossoming jungle of shrubs and plants which seemed to have been called into life by a more potent sun.
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The old shabby church showed, as usual, its quaint extent of roofage and the relievo skeleton on one gable, still blackened with the fire of thirty years ago.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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From my bed I looked across the red-tiled terrace to the stone-pines with their velvet roofage and the blue-peaked hills of
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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From my bed I looked across the red-tiled terrace to the stone-pines with their velvet roofage and the blue-peaked hills of
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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From my bed I looked across the red-tiled terrace to the stone pines with their velvet roofage and the blue-peaked hills of Stabiæ.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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He threw their arches out, and interwove the groinings of their vaults, like the bough-roofage overhead.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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Above and below are lofty walls of limestone and ferrugiuous rock, that, in many places, overhang the sweeping waters at their base, and form roofage beneath which swarms of prairie swallows are wont to raise their annual broods.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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Their forms were oval, and the roofage so complete, we were amply sheltered in one of them from a heavy shower which fell during our stay.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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These lodges (some of them containing quantities of roofage to the amount of ten or fifteen buffalo skins) are large and commodious; and, even comfortable, in the severest weather; the heat from the centre fire, being refracted on striking the sloping sides, communicates an agreeable warmth to every part.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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