What is "mansard"

Usage examples of "mansard".

His mouse was quiet I stood with my back to the Sistine color print, gazing either at the empty, slightly wobbling turntable, or out the mansard window, over the raw-red roof tiles, at Christ Church, one dial on the front, another on the east side of the bulbiform tower.

It was a two-storey affair, white-painted with neat, black shutters, a windowbox full of geraniums and a high mansard roof.

Albert came out of the elevator, walked over to the counter, and shot his boss, Kyle Anderson, he was manager of the Mansard House, shot his boss in the heart.

Albert LaFollette, the bellboy who went nuts at the Mansard House, was in cahoots with anybody.

I mean, I know it may be official business and everything, but is it true that this girl is a suspect in the Mansard House murders and had to be brought in by force?

Gentry did not like or trust Richard Haines, but he knew no reason for the FBI to suspect a Charleston sheriff in either the airline explosion or Mansard House murders.

Bryson pulled up in front of his house, a ramshackle Queen Anne-style dwelling with a mansard roof and plaster facade.

She had always wanted to slide down the great mansard roof: begin at the top and skid down the first gentle slope.

The weak rays of the sun still illuminated its mansard roofs and ocular windows.

Japanese buildings were freestanding, so as to avoid breaking the mansard perfection of its marble facade.

German student already has his mansard roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study of the ancient Gothic tongues.

Think of people FARMING on a slant which is so steep that the best you can say of it--if you want to be fastidiously accurate--is, that it is a little steeper than a ladder and not quite so steep as a mansard roof.

Narrow streets of three-story Victorian brick with lead-sheeted mansard roofs are falling prey to the need to centralize small industry and commerce without threatening land values and the quality of life in the better neighborhoods.

It had been left unaltered for a century at least, and everything, from the blackened mansard roofs with their rococo weather-cocks, to the bay windows with their tiny squares of glass and the fantastic escutcheon over the door, was in keeping.

You got that look about you like that young Father Mansard, wondering what trouble I got up to.