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
The house is a great, square, hip-roofed structure two and a half stories high with two large square chimneys and severely plain pedimental dormers.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
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
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
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 Frank Cousins
