eaved

American  

[eevd] / ivd /

adjective

1. (of a roof, window, or door) provided with eaves or an overhang, often of a specified kind.

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Example Sentences

The Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library, surrounded by parkland, is a shiny pavilion with an almost argyle-patterned glass-and-mirror facade and a deeply eaved roof.

From Time

This larger house was a low, French-windowed dwelling, with a pleasantly eaved and flat-pitched roof, very refreshing to think of in these days of Garden City roofs and diminutive dormers; and its garden was well kept, and gay with virginia stock borders and delphinium and Canterbury bells in the beds behind.

From Project Gutenberg

But the first lot I ’eaved up turned my stummick, sure.

From Project Gutenberg

Later, smiling maidens bedecked with flowers, came out of the low eaved houses, and with the youths and gayer soldiers fell a dancing on the green to the sound of banjo and guitar, in the light of a bright full moon, beneath a star-studded dome of clearest azure.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg