mansard

Examples

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• With its pale blue clapboards and mansard roof surmounted by a turret, it was a miniature of the main house except for interior modifications.

  Fiction book (1999)

• My wife and I decided on the Spanish tile with the mansard roof.

  White Men Can't Jump (1992)

• With a mansard roof and painted white, it stood at the end of a long driveway.

  Academic text (2009)

• Presently, she removed the mansard number and tossed it in my lap.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The Pierces' French mansard home was around the corner from the Abbott house.

  Fiction book (1994)

• She didn't know where she was driving, only that she did not want the desk nearby, so she drove to where the houses were single-family, not carved into apartments, and soon she was in the neighborhood where she had found the desk in the first place. Then she made a few deliberate turns and pulled up to the curb by the house with the mansard roof.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Then you have to climb stairs—four flights' worth—each with dozens of doors and more than dozens of people living behind them, meddlesome people constantly lolling on the balconies, and only then will you come to the mansard level.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The beautiful old building featured a stunning mansard roof that created an inviting top-floor living space.

• The architects designed a new home with a striking mansard roof to provide extra room beneath the sloping ceilings.

Compounds

M

mansard roof

• Specialized

1 8.1

A roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope steeper than the upper

Surface Forms

Etymology