roofletn.
/ˈruːflᵻt/, U.S. /ˈruflət/, /ˈrʊflət/ A small roof or covering.
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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-
1825 T. Jefferson Let. 3 Dec. in Princ. Docs. rel. to Survey Coast U.S. (1834) 50 In the house in which I live, and its offices, I have flat roofs of a different construction; they consist of rooflets, thirty inches wide, with gutters.
1884 D. G. Mitchell Out-of-town Places 180 Do not for that reason make all your gateways with red rooflets.
1946 S. Kramrisch & R. Burnier Hindu Temple 369 The vertical panels [are] shaded by a cornice or rooflet.
1983 P. Fussell Class iv. 82 In one model of a middle-class house, these often attenuate to mere white-painted sticks..two stories tall, supporting a flyweight rooflet extending over the façade of a Tara-like ‘Southern mansion’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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