Mansard roof

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a hip roof having two slopes on each side wordnet
  3. 3
    A steeper roof that terminates into a flat roof at its high point.

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:mansard roof."

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