hipped roof
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The photographs showed fire within the house, just behind an entrance portico that includes rectangular brick or stone columns supporting a hipped roof.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021
The Cheney house, built in 1903, was a broad-shouldered example of Wright’s Prairie style, its hipped roof extending protectively over a base of Roman brick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2017
Built on wheels that can be covered when parked, the Cyprus has a corner porch and hipped roof.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 21, 2015
In the distance she could see the hipped roof and squat chimney of the Moseby house; but nobody molested her.
From Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Above a heavy cornice with prominent modillions springs the hipped roof, pierced on both sides by two handsome dormers and surmounted by a long, beautifully balustraded belvedere.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank
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