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Curb roof   Listen
noun
Curb roof  n.  A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Curb roof" Quotes from Famous Books



... loose-jointed train pulled out of the station, leaving behind it a solitary young man, enveloped in smoke and cinders. In the middle of the platform stood a little building with a curb roof, pointed at both ends like a Noah's Ark; and the visitor felt that if he could only manage to lift up one side of the roof he would find the animals "two by two," together with the cylindrical Noah and the rest of his family. There was no one in sight but the station-master, ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott



Words linked to "Curb roof" :   mansard roof, mansard



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