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A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The steep roof with windows creates an additional floor of habitable space, (a garret), and reduces the over...
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• A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.
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A four-sided hipped roof featuring two slopes on each side, the lower slopes being very steep, almost vertical, and the upper slopes sometimes being so horizontal that they are not visible from the ground. The Mansard roof was named after the French 17th-century architect Francois Mansart (1598-1666), who popularized the form.
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(from the article `roof`) ...Gable and hip roofs can also be used for homes with more complicated layouts. The gambrel roof is a type of gable roof with two slopes on each ... ...and, when possible, stands free; it has a square or nearly square plan with rooms disposed axially; externally, there is a profusion of ... ...first, and C...
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A roof which rises by inclined planes from all four sides of a building. The sloping roofs on all four sides have two pitches, the lower pitch usually very steep and the upper pitch less steep.
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A type of roof containing two sloping planes of different pitch on each of four sides. The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper, often approaching vertical. Contains no gables.
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A hip roof in which each face has two slopes, the lower one steeper than the upper.
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Double pitched roof in which lower pitch is nearly vertical and upper is nearly horizontal
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Man'sard roof' [ So called from its inventor, François
Mansard , or
Mansart , a distinguished French architect, who died in 1666.]
(Architecture) A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.
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In architecture a Mansard roof is a hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one. It is named after its inventor, Francois Mansard, the French architect, who developed it so that the attic could be used as a room, in consequence of a municipal law limiting the height of front walls...
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A roof with two slopes on each side, with the lower slope being nearly vertical and the upper slope nearly horizontal.
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Form of pitched roof designed to provide more space for rooms
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A form of pitched roof designed to provide more space for rooms. It is characterised by two slopes on each of its four sides with the lower slope being much steeper, almost a vertical wall, while the upper slope, usually not visible from the ground, is pitched at the minimum needed to shed water.
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A flat roof having sloping edges to eaves level.
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