mansard

• This charming mansard-roofed cottage was built by the New Bern Academy and later leased and sold to Hugh Lovick.
• Records indicate the mansard-roofed house was built in 1889. —  Ecology of Absence
• The cheerful groups broke up, strolling home to the mansard or to the fo'castle, with bursts of drunken or drowsy song. —  The Street Called Straight
• The recent fashion of a mansard or "French roof" is only making part of the wall of the house look like roof, at equal expense, at the sacrifice of space inside, and above all, of tightness. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862
• The good taste of the old builders made them avoid putting dormer-windows (at least in front) in roofs of one pitch; the windows were in the gables, carried out for this purpose; or if dormers were necessary, they made a mansard or double-pitched roof, in which the windows are less detached. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862

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