| 单词 | mansard roof |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmansard roof 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. < as lemmas |
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