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mansard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | mansard roof |
| Type of | curb roof |
| Has types | french roof |
mansard::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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the story formed by a mansard roof is usually called the garret.
Examples of mansard
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The Utah Republican probably couldn't tell a flying buttress from a mansard roof.
From the washingtonpost.com
The main house was constructed in 1852 as a five-bay Georgian with a mansard roof.
From the inrich.com
The building had been hidden beneath a 1980s mansard roof and brick facade.
From the chron.com
The exteriors sport mansard roofs, bay windows or wagon-wheel molding.
From the washingtonpost.com
But the most striking feature borrowed from this period is the steep, boxy mansard roof.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The buildings were originally grand town houses with mansard roofs and Corintian columns.
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In the remodeling a library was added with a mansard roof overhead.
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Its picturesque corner towers flowed out of a mansard roof of black slate shipped from Maine.
From the denverpost.com
The Cannon Building got a contemporary mansard roof after two fires.
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- (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper; "the story formed by a mansard roof is usually called the garret"
- A hip roof having two slopes on each side
- A roof design with a nearly vertical roof plane that ties into a roof plane of less slope at its peak.
- A tilted fascia system mounted to the roof, outside the steel line, and above the roof line to form a decorative fascia appearance and hide the roof line.
- A roof having a double slope on all four sides, the lower slope being much steeper. In rowhouse design, a double-sloped roof on the building front, below a flat roof.
- Two slopes on each of its four sides; one part very steep and curved, often with dormers
- A roof built at two pitches, the steeper pitch commencing at the eaves and the flatter pitch finishing at the ridge.
- A decorative facade, usually highly pitched frame attached at the eave line of a building.
- A roof of two pitches, the upper one less steep than the lower.
