hip-roofed
- 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
It is a low, hip-roofed house, studded with enormous beams, and lighted with tiny diamond window-panes.
From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various
It is an oblong structure of brick, with marble and white wood trim, two stories high, hip-roofed and surmounted in the center by a well-proportioned, octagonal open cupola.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank
They walked up the sandy village street, under the old hip-roofed houses, crossed the Branch bridge, and proceeded a quarter of a mile on the road to Washington.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
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 Griswold, Hattie Tyng
