hip roof
noun
a roof with sloping ends and sides; a hipped roof.
hip-roofed
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a word derived from
hip roof.
Example Sentences
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The family's ordeal finally ended in August, when a trailer truck carrying a hip-roofed house with yellow shingles pulled up on the site of Anderson's burned-out home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sandy Graff's father had been a cobbler in Upper Main Street, and he himself had in time followed the same trade in the same little, old-fashioned, dingy, shingled, hip-roofed house.
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells
The main house is a hip-roofed structure two and a half stories in height of rubble masonry, the front being plastered and lined off to simulate dressed stone and the other walls being pebble dashed.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
Shadynook was one of those old hip-roofed houses which the traveller of to-day meets with so frequently, scattered throughout Virginia, crowning every knoll and giving character to every landscape.
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
The old yellow hip-roofed house was about one hundred and sixty years old when it was moved away to make room for modern improvements.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
