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单词 mansard
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mansardn.

Brit. /ˈmansɑːd/, U.S. /ˈmænˌsɑrd/
Forms: 1700s– mansard, 1700s– mansarde (chiefly in sense 1b). Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mansarde.
Etymology: < French mansarde (1676 in sense 1a, also as comble à la Mansarde ; 1782 in sense 1b) < the name of François Mansart or Mansard, French architect (1598–1666), who used this design of roof (which he did not invent) in certain important buildings from 1635–8 onwards.
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.
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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.
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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.
2. U.S. Nautical. = booby hatch n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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).
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