eave
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4.6
- noun
- /iːv/
:
alero
- The eaves of the house were decorated with colorful garlands for the holiday season.
Examples
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As Leo rolls out onto the long sloping eave of a front porch.
Fiction book (1990) -
The third bed, beneath the tilt of the eave, was bare.
Fiction book (1993) -
Including a drift up at the corner of the eave that had to be 4 feet deep.
Blog text (17) -
You see, right up there, under the eaves.
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Alone in the quiet of the bedroom beneath the eaves, I would make sense of the disorder of my thoughts.
Fiction book (1993) -
There's a little room under the eaves.
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I stood under the cafe's eaves, looking at the Courier and breathing the cold air.
Fiction book (1992) -
Outside, the wind cackled through the treetops; the eaves of the big house creaked.
Fiction book (1990) -
The rooms were small, with sloping eaves and rickety white-painted furniture; we loved them.
Fiction book (1991) -
The turning leaves scraped against the shingles of the turret bedrooms and the eaves of the roof.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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4.3
The lower edge of a roof that sticks out from a building to keep rain away
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Etymology
Eave comes from an old English word efes meaning 'edge' or 'border'. It names the lower edge of a roof that sticks out past the wall, and you can remember it as the place where water drops fall — the same idea is in eavesdrop, which comes from standing under the eaves to listen.