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curb roof

American  

noun

  1. a roof divided on each side of the ridge into two or more slopes, as a gambrel or mansard.

curb roof British  

noun

  1. a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge See also mansard gambrel roof

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Etymology

Origin of curb roof

First recorded in 1725–35

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Gambrel Roof.—A curb roof having the same section in all its parts, with a lower, steeper and longer part.

From Project Gutenberg

Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.

From Project Gutenberg

Mansard Roof.—A hipped curb roof, that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one, A, being steeper than the upper portion or deck.

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