Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The upper story formed by the lower slope of a mansard roof.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In French, a mansard roof; a dormer-window; hence, a chamber lighted by such a window; a chamber in the roof: in English used in all these senses. See
Mansard roof , under roof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a roof having two
slopes on eachside , thelower beingsteeper than theupper - noun A
mansard roof - noun The upper
storey of abuilding , surrounded by such a roof
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hip roof having two slopes on each side
- adjective (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He'd gone up there with another altar boy from Moosup; the two occupied separate rooms in the old Victorian house, a place whose long windows and mansard roof made it look like something out of the Addams Family.
David Margolick: Tommy Deary's Long Overdue Justice David Margolick 2011
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He'd gone up there with another altar boy from Moosup; the two occupied separate rooms in the old Victorian house, a place whose long windows and mansard roof made it look like something out of the Addams Family.
David Margolick: Tommy Deary's Long Overdue Justice David Margolick 2011
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It has a mansard roof, and is in northern California.
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So perhaps the architect should put in for a three-storey building with a mansard roof (which would be a couple of feet taller than the building opposite), getting the developer four storeys.
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Later, in the 1870s, with the French no longer Britain's naturalenemies, Second Empire architecture became popular, with its telltale mansard roofs, dormer windows and bracketed balconies.
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His mansard-roofed summer mansion- called Bleak House - stood at what is now 13th and Geranium until it was torn down in 1916.
Alaska was hot on the minds of many in D.C. years before it won statehood John Kelly 2011
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A man of average height must stoop under the beams of the little mansard chamber in No. 20 Bonngasse.
A juke box hero, got stars in his eyes Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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A man of average height must stoop under the beams of the little mansard chamber in No. 20 Bonngasse.
Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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His mansard-roofed summer mansion- called Bleak House - stood at what is now 13th and Geranium until it was torn down in 1916.
Alaska was hot on the minds of many in D.C. years before it won statehood John Kelly 2011
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Late Victorian, solidly brick built, it rose through three floors of diminishingly elaborate casement windows, the uppermost arched attractively and poking out from a fine mansard roof.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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