roof dormer
21Dormer Window — ♦ Vertical window with own gable and individual roof, in the slope of a roof; usually lighting a sleeping apartment, hence the name. (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 411) …
22dormer — noun Etymology: Middle French dormeor dormitory, from Latin dormitorium Date: 1592 a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof; also the roofed structure containing such a window • dormered adjective …
23dormer — dor·mer || dÉ”ËmÉ™ n. window that projects from a roof …
24dormer — dor•mer [[t]ˈdɔr mər[/t]] n. 1) bui Also called dor′mer win′dow. a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof 2) bui the entire projecting structure • Etymology: 1585–95; < MF dormoir dormitory …
25dormer — n. window projecting vertically from roof with gable like covering …
26Mansard roof — redirects here. For the Vampire Weekend song, see Mansard Roof (song). A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre (1675–1683), by Jules Hardouin Mansart, great nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof) is a …
27Wall dormer — A wall dormer is a dormer whose face is integral with the face of the wall below, breaking the line at the cornice of a building.Wall dormers are less commonly seen than typical “roof dormers”. They locate the window flush with the wall plane… …
28shed dormer — noun Date: 1948 a dormer with a roof sloping in the same direction as the roof from which the dormer projects …
29Hip roof — A bungalow in Chicago with a hipped roof …
30mansard roof — /ˈmænsad ruf/ (say mansahd roohf), / səd/ (say suhd) noun a roof having two pitches, the upper slopes being flatter than the lower ones, usually with rooms in the roof space having dormer windows. Also, mansard. {named after François Mansart,… …
