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Roof tree

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The ridgepole of a peaked roof, especially that of a house. archaic
  2. 2
    By extension: a peaked roof, especially of a house; by further extension: a house, a dwelling structure, a building used as a home. figuratively

    "Everyone is supposed to know what a mortgage is. With most the experience is personal; in the course of a generation few roof trees avoid this affliction."

Etymology

From roof + tree.

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