mansard roof
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A steeper roof that terminates into a flat roof at its high point.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:mansard roof."