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reed-roofed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (also, not-comparable, poetic) Of a building or structure, covered with a roof made from reeds, typically layered as thatch for waterproofing and insulation.
    • All the reed-roofed temples were decorated with "mixcoas," or "cloud-serpents," representing the Chichimec deity, Mixcoatl. 1969, Elsa M. Redmond, Joseph W. Hopkins, Mary G. Hodge, Irrigation & the Cuicatec Ecosystem, A Study of Agriculture & Civilization in North Central Oaxaca. 1983-1984, page 58:
    • Opening the wall to the reed-roofed patio was like adding a new room to small house. 1958, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Department (contributor), Sunset, volume 121, page 62:
    • What is this homespun comedy of Love, / Rank with the furrow-cleaving herdsman's toil? / What is this vineyard lodge, this red alcove, / Reed-roofed among the orchards of the oil? 1895, John Byrne Leicester Warren (3rd baron De Tabley.), Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical, page 136: