hipped roof
Britishnoun
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The photographs showed fire within the house, just behind an entrance portico that includes rectangular brick or stone columns supporting a hipped roof.
From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2021
The Cheney house, built in 1903, was a broad-shouldered example of Wright’s Prairie style, its hipped roof extending protectively over a base of Roman brick.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2017
Built on wheels that can be covered when parked, the Cyprus has a corner porch and hipped roof.
From National Geographic • Jul. 21, 2015
Two-and-a-half stories high, large twin chimneys rise out of the hipped roof and three dormer windows break the front and back.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague
Gambrel, gam′brel, n. the hock of a horse: a crooked stick used by butchers for suspending a carcass while dressing it.—Gambrel roof, a curved or hipped roof.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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