mansard roof

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mansard roof

noun mansard roofs

A roof having two slopes on each side, the lower one having a steeper pitch than the upper; this increases the volume of the enclosed space. My parents live in Chisipite (in Shona, the local language, it means "spring," after the water source there), an outer suburb of the city, in a rather austere 1950s house, with a Dutch-style mansard roof, in an astonishingly fecund acre of garden.
A steeper roof that terminates into a flat roof at its high point. For quotations using this term, see Citations:mansard roof.

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noun a roof with a shallower slope descending into a steeper slope

Deutsch	Mansarddach
Русский	манса́рда mansárda

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@misc{mansard_roof_2026,
  title = {mansard roof},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mansard%20roof},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}