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Mansard roof
Mansard roof Man"sard roof" [So called from its inventor, Fran[,c]ois Mansard, or Mansart, a distinguished French architect, who died in 1666.] (Arch.) A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.

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- A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides...
- "Mansard Roof" is the debut single by indie rock band Vampire W****end, released on October 23, 2007. "Mansard Roof" was the first song from Vampire W****end's...
- Times and The Manchester Guardian. The Mansard Gallery closed in the 1980s. In 2010 an online version of the Mansard Gallery opened on Heal's website. A...
- Mansard Roof House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, ****berland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three bay...
- subtlety, and elegance". Mansart, as he is generally known, po****rized the mansard roof, a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof punctuated with windows on...
- historically did not distinguish between a gambrel roof and a mansard roof but called both types a mansard. In the United States, various shapes of gambrel roofs...
- visible from below Inner dome of Les Invalides, seen from below Hardouin-Mansard's plan for a curving colonnade of Les Invalides, not completed (1700) On...
- the Second Empire architectural style (Mansard style) in the U.S. Gambrel, curb, kerb: A roof similar to a mansard but sloped in one direction rather than...
- additions are relatively difficult to make on houses with hip roofs. A mansard roof is a variation on a hip roof, with two different roof angles, the...
- the social status decreased. Garrets were often internal elements of the mansard roof, with skylights or dormer windows. A "bow garret" is a two-story "outhouse"...