slate roof
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- noun
- /sleɪt ruːf/
:
techo de pizarra
- In the moonlight, the slate roof shone and the chimneys were black: the house looked wonderful, like a castle full of secrets.
- a gray slate roof
- a steep slate roof
- houses with slate roofs
Examples
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The farmhouses were white, with slate roofs and two white chimneys, one at each end of the house.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the waning sun, the slate roof glinted like lead.
Fiction book (1990) -
All went well until the slate roof released a rush of snow.
Fiction book (1991) -
So we went into Dracula's Castle, which was dark all the way up to its expensive slate roof.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was a slate roof that weighed, probably, a ton all by itself.
Fiction book (2000) -
Eight chimneys poked through a slate roof.
Fiction book (1996) -
The only sounds were those she made, and the background hiss and tick of rain drumming on a slate roof overhead.
Fiction book (1991) -
The home was a two-story stone mansion with a steep slate roof, a stone well, and a wooden outhouse.
Fiction book (1996) -
Its sturdy steeple held a stone cross, attached to the slate roof with strong wires against the Atlantic winds.
Fiction book (1999) -
The old cottage had a charming slate roof that kept the rain out during storms.
Synonyms
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Material used to cover the top of a building, like tiles or metal sheets
Thin flat pieces of rock used to cover a roof
How Durable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a roof covered with slate' is directly and compositionally derived from 'slate' (the flat rock) + 'roof' (the top covering), using a common noun–noun attributive pattern. This straightforward material + object construction is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Slate roof comes from the simple image of a roof covered with thin, flat pieces of slate rock that overlap like tiles to keep out rain. That's why it means 'a roof made of slate'.