Definitionadj. (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper
Last update: June 23, 2015
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Apart from the Hotel des Monneyroux (used as prefecture), a picturesque mansion of the 15th and 16th centuries, with mansard roofs and mullioned windows, Gueret has little architectural interest. [Please select]
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The main body of the house was of two stories (through which ran a deep bay in front), with mansard roof. [Please select]
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There was a sort of mansard there, with windows, and just enough coping to keep him from rolling off. [Please select]
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The cheerful groups broke up, strolling home to the mansard or to the fo'castle, with bursts of drunken or drowsy song.' [Please select]
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Sandy is evidently the result of environment--olive green, with a mansard roof and the shades pulled down. [Please select]
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I don't know what our poor doctor would prefer; olive green with a mansard roof appears to be his taste. [Please select]
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Sibyl and Alice Thorndyke's father had left his girls a square bow-windowed mansard-roofed double house, built in eighteen-seventy-eight, and unreclaimed. [Please select]
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One of his architects, Mansard, invented the mansard roof, which has been largely used in France and other European countries. [Please select]
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Great painters and sculptors, such as Le Brun, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and Girardon, ornamented the palaces which Mansard erected; while Le Nôtre laid out the gardens of those palaces which are still a wonder. [Please select]
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Her enormous weight made her draw more than twenty feet of water and when she was moving slowly through the bay or river her appearance suggested the mansard roof of a vast house. [Please select]
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