eaves

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Down at the eaves was the small arbor, green in summer, but covered now with dead vines and snow.

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  1. plural noun The projecting overhang at the lower edge of a roof.

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  • In the areas where their aren't any eaves, the walls are covered with copper and due to the rain exposure, the material will change naturally, making it look even more beautiful. —  Dezeen
  • A pair of swallows has made a nest between the rafters and the eaves, and they flutter into the porch and out again, afraid to get on their nest while humans are so near. —  Political Affairs Magazine
  • We wet clothes hanging on the laundry under the eaves, and then the Hunter family greeted outside the house we went to a small tin roof house to eat, the house is light and well, there is a Tibetan middle earth cooking, cooking benches burning wood fire, burning stove butter tea, hearth baked cakes placed Nang. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • The roofs are two-tiered with traditional flared eaves, and covered with a sea of golden yellow porcelain tiles. —  The Buddhist Channel
  • They usually hang the autumn harvest under the eaves, and let the dry winter air transform them into something like enchanted dried apricots: intense, chewy, and frosted in sugar crystals. —  Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
 

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  1. Middle English eves, from Old English efes; see upo in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also eves; from Middle English evese, eovese, plural eveses, eaves of a house, edge (of a hill, a wood, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon efese, yfese, eaves, edge, = OFries. ose = Middle Low German ovese, Low German oese, ese = Old High German obasa, obosa, obisa, opasa, oposa, opesa, obsa, Middle High German obse, German dial. obesen, obsen, a porch (German dial. ousch, uesch, a gutter along the eaves), = Icelandic ups = Swedish dial. uffs, eaves, = Gothic (Moesogothic) ubizwa, a porch, prob. from Gothic (Moesogothic) uf, under, = Old High German oba, opa, Middle High German obe, German oben, above (cf. German ob-dach, a shelter), etc.: see over, from the same ult. source. This word is properly singular, but, like riches, etc., it is treated as plural, the formative suffix -es being mistaken for the plural suffix.
 

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