eaved
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The fairy-tale cottage was whitewashed and its broad eaved roof was thatched.
From Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett
How vast it was, how protected, how high, how eaved, how enduring!
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
It is of stone, and has an immense gable roof, slated, and studded with eaved windows.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie
In the former place, the only notice a stranger may get is having “arf a brick eaved at him,” or being “pinned by a bull pup.”
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
It was only the residents themselves who enjoyed the proud privilege of pacing the Park unmolested, for at either entrance stood small eaved lodges in which were housed the two gardeners and their wives.
From Flaming June by A. Gilbert
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