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mansard roof en · NOUN

Meanings

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

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Translations (12)

fi aumattu taitekatto (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · mk манса́рда (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · ru манса́рда (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · sh mansárda (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · be манса́рда (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · uk манса́рда (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · pl mansarda (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · sh манса́рда (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · de Mansarddach (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · bg манса́рда (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · sv brutet tak (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope) · id atap prancis (a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope)