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mansard roofs

mansard roofs is the plural of mansard roof.

Meaning of mansard roof

Noun

mansard roof (plural mansard roofs)

  1. A roof having two slopes on each side, the lower one having a steeper pitch than the upper; this increases the volume of the enclosed space.
    • My parents live in Chisipite (in Shona, the local language, it means "spring," after the water source there), an outer suburb of the city, in a rather austere 1950s house, with a Dutch-style mansard roof, in an astonishingly fecund acre of garden.2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
  2. A steeper roof that terminates into a flat roof at its high point.
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Questions about mansard roofs

What is mansard roofs the plural of?
Mansard roofs is the plural of mansard roof.

Words near mansard roofs in the dictionary

  1. Mansalay
  2. Mansaray
  3. Mansarays
  4. mansard
  5. mansard roof
  6. mansard roofs
  7. mansarded
  8. mansards
  9. mansas
  10. Mansbridge
  11. manscape

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