单词 | mansard |
释义 | mansardn. 1. a. In full mansard roof. A roof which has four sloping and hipped sides, each of which becomes steeper halfway (or part-way) down. Also (British): a two-sided roof each side of which becomes steeper halfway down, frequently between parapet walls or over gable walls at each end. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally vaulta1387 plat-roofa1425 pend1454 faunsere1460 compassed roofa1552 terrace1572 sotie1578 crown1588 arch-roof1594 arch1609 under-roof1611 concameration1644 voltoa1660 hip roof1663 French roof1669 oversail1673 jerkinhead1703 mansard1704 curb-roof1733 shed roof1736 gable roof1759 gambrel roof1761 living roof1792 pent roof1794 span-roof1823 wagon-head1823 azotea1824 rafter roof1825 rooflet1825 wagon-vault1835 bell-roof1842 spire-roof1842 cradle-roof1845 packsaddle roof1845 open roof1847 umbrella roof1847 gambrel1848 packsaddle1848 compass-roof1849 saddleback1849 saddle roof1850 curbed roof1866 wagon-roof1866 saw-tooth roof1900 trough roof1905 skillion roof1911 north-light roof1923 shell roof1954 green roof1984 knee-roof- 1704 J. Ozell tr. C. Perrault Characters Greatest Men in France I. 200 It is he who invented that sort of Coverture which is call'd from him Mansarde [Fr. Mansarde]; where by breaking the Roofs of Houses, the space they take up is enlarged, and means thereby found for the contrivance of very convenient and very agreeable Lodgings. 1734 Builder's Dict. II. at Roof This last is particularly called a Mansard, from M. Mansard, a famous French Architect, the Inventor. a1785 J. Hall-Stevenson Wks. (1795) II. 166 A building seem'd to offer something new; A mansarde roof, a contour light and trim. 1873 A. I. Thackeray Wks. (1891) I. 18 They lived in a tall house, with a mansard roof. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad iv. 50 Foreign youth..go to the University to put a mansard roof on their whole general education. 1902 L. L. Bell Hope Loring 193 The mansard roof gave it a low ceiling and slanting walls. 1940 W. V. T. Clark Ox-bow Incident ii. 80 Judge Tyler's house was one of the brick ones, with a mansard roof. 1978 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 346 The rash of utterly false mansards, false, small-paned windows, and electric candlesticks is the heart's cry of a lonely, lonely people. 1997 B. Morrow Giovanni's Gift ii. 170 Framed in one arched window jutting from the mansard roof was the pale face of a woman looking down at me. b. A storey or apartment under a mansard roof. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment > type of studio flat1882 studio apartment1884 mansard1886 penthouse1892 single end1897 walk-up1907 railroad flat1908 simplex1912 service flat1913 studio1918 kitchenette1920 duplex1922 garden flat1922 flatlet1925 show flat1929 quadruplex1939 council flat1941 garden apartment1942 walk-back1945 multilevel1959 tower apartment1961 condominium1962 triplex1962 condo1984 1838 C. G. F. Gore Scrap-stall in Mary Raymond II. 128 ‘Grope your way up to the mansarde,’ (Goldsmith's ‘first floor down the chimney’, thought I, par parenthèse!) ‘taking care not to miss the steps of the ladder in the dark.’ 1841 E. A. Poe Murders in Rue Morgue in Graham's Mag. Apr. 171/1 The house was a four story one, with garrets, (mansardes). 1859 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 434/2 One could almost pardon the weaver who chafed himself into the madness and rage of sedition, as he looked out over his loom, day after day, from the window of his mansarde upon the diabolical calm of those walls. 1886 A. Ritchie Let. (1924) x. 197 A remarkable lady who managed Normandy and who received emperors in her mansarde. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy ix. 162 The garret that he now saw was not an attic, nor yet a mansarde, but a genuine garret. 1945 E. Bowen Demon Lover 121 Glazed-in balconies and French-type mansardes. 1947 W. Stevens Transport to Summer 121 But you, ephebe, look from your attic window, Your mansard with a rented piano. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 161 They'd lived in the same drafty mansarde in the Liebigstrasse in Munich. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > opening leading to cabin > cover over > type of booby hatch1784 booby-hutch1821 booby house1845 mansard1882 1882 D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 3) 552 Mansard, an American term for a booby hatch. Compounds Instrumental. mansard-roofed adj. ΚΠ 1855 Summer-land 109 The gin-house, mansard-roofed, and supported by square pillars. 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 20 July 82/2 Midway on either side rises a Mansard-roofed tower twenty-five feet above the lean-to roofs. 1887 J. E. Taylor Tourist's Guide Suffolk 31 The Tower Ramparts, where the red-tiled, mansard-roofed cottages have been built on the very top. 1915 E. Atkinson Johnny Appleseed 80 From there he saw the white mansard-roofed mansion. 1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. 14/3 Old mansard-roofed hotels and understated pensions cling to the granite hillside, each seemingly straining to get the best glimpse of the falls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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