Search Result for "mansard_roof":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a hip roof having two slopes on each side;
[syn: mansard, mansard roof]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mansard roof \Man"sard roof"\ [So called from its inventor, Fran[,c]ois Mansard, or Mansart, a distinguished French architect, who died in 1666.] (Arch.) A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mansard roof n 1: a hip roof having two slopes on each side [syn: mansard, mansard roof]