roofedadj.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. iii. f. 64 Beinge roofed and paued with maruelous arte.

1607 (?a1425) Chester Plays (Harl. 2124) 43 Rowfed [1591 Huntington three, ronett chambers].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 39 Here had we now our Countries Honor, roof'd, Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present. View more context for this quotation

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 39 The first publick Building that we saw so rooft since we left England.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 328 Three detached parts of it, which are roofed but very ruinous, are still remaining.

1792 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 184 She seeks a covert from the battering shower In the roofed bridge.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 274 The Gallery of Kaltwasser, which is roofed like a house.

1896 W. Black Briseis xxiv In the roofed-over portion of the Erectheum.

1909 C. F. G. Masterman Condition of Eng. viii. 254 The roofed-in labyrinthine airless ant-heaps of Mr. Wells's nightmare.

1931 K. N. Burt Man's Own Country 39 A small log building attached to the end of his own ranch-house by means of what is known to the Far West as a breeze-way. This construction is a floored and roofed-over passage, open at the sides.

1934 L. B. Lyon White Hare 11 The roofed glade's a sieve That lets drip through sweet water.

1946 F. Sargeson That Summer 107 We all went under a little roofed-in part.

1976 ‘G. Black’ Moon for Killers vi. 83 A roofed-over area that looked almost big enough to be a bus depot.

2008 J. R. Provey & O. Lockwood Outdoor Kitchens iv. 72 A roofed structure is the most permanent solution and can often be designed to fit right in with your home's architecture.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Introd. 20 Their houses are built round, al of earth, flat-roofed, and couered with a kind of thatch.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 293 He..entr'd soon the shade High rooft . View more context for this quotation

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 271 All kind of flat Roof'd Buildings.

1752 J. Armstrong Hist. Island Minorca 8 The Buildings are universally of Freestone, and either covered with Tiles, or flat-roofed and terraced.

1804 European Mag. 45 60/2 The thatch-roof'd village, and the busy town.

1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 139 To lie shivering inside a grass-roofed church.

1871 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 245 Thorshaven, with its green-roofed little houses.

1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 419/2 The little flat-roofed blue-daubed houses below were empty, meaningless as shells that lie uncounted below cliffs.

1952 P. Pinney Road in Wilderness 69 You think I love that dirty rabble of tin-roofed shanties I was born in?

2004 T. Botha Mongo x. 227 The hospital knocked down ten interconnecting buildings..to make way for the glass-roofed, pyramidlike Guggenheim Pavilion.

2005 Philadelphia Inquirer 20 Oct. e6/2 (advt.) For a rainforest-like atmosphere..Rockhouse in Negril offers thatch-roofed villas.

1872 Rev. List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 5) 329 Pangshura tectum (Bell). Roofed Terrapin.

1983 J. C. Daniel Bk. Indian Reptiles 24 Indian Sawback or Roofed Terrapin. Kachuga tecta (Gray). Small sized..terrapin of the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra river systems.

2004 D. Moll & E. O. Moll Ecol., Exploitation, & Conservation River Turtles iii. 129 The crowned river turtle and red-crowned roofed terrapins were caught only rarely or not at all.

1957 A. D. Cruickshank et al. Hunting with Camera iii. 92 (caption) Roofed Turtle, a species from Southeast Asia, eyeing the landscape of the New York Zoological Garden.

1986 T. R. Halliday & K. Adler Encycl. Reptiles & Amphibians 80 A similar shelf is also present in certain herbivorous species (e.g...roofed turtles).

2007 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 24 Jan. Started from the scratch in 2001 with two pairs of roofed turtles, the project has achieved considerable success with 22 hatchlings in 2005 alone.