释义 |
roofage|ˈruːfɪdʒ| [f. roof n. + -age.] The material of a roof; roofing of any kind.
1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 205 The gracefulness of its roofage, the delicacy of its carved work. 1867G. M. Musgrave Nooks & Corners Old France II. 149 The dark slates that form the universal roofage. 1887W. G. Palgrave Ulysses 237 A spacious raised wooden shed,..roofed with thatch—your only Shinto wear for roofage. transf.1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 311 Branching limes, and elms with their..gnarled boles and sombre roofage. 1950M. Peake Gormenghast xviii. 108 A posse of professors in a whirl of gowns and a shuffling roofage of mortar-boards. |