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mansard
[ man-sahrd, -serd ]
noun
- Also called mansard roof. a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part. Compare French roof.
- the story under such a roof.
mansard
/ -səd; ˈmænsɑːd /
noun
- Also calledmansard roof a roof having two slopes on both sides and both ends, the lower slopes being steeper than the upper Compare gambrel roof
- an attic having such a roof
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yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of mansard1
C18: from French mansarde, after François Mansart
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Example Sentences
She climbed through a mansard window in the roof and watched as it hovered above.
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Haggerty sold that building, but he’s still a landlord and still in love with his 1890s’ house with a mansard roof and fish scale shingles that he bought for $30,000 in 1971.
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Mr. Sempé gave most of his work, especially portrayals of Paris, a heavy veneer of nostalgia: the city’s traditional mansard roofs, roads full of Citroëns and baguettes peeking from shopping bags.
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Some have gable roofs; others have mansard roofs.
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Simulated cracks slash across brickwork on townhouse chimney stacks, and mansards seem to be melting.
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