What is "mansards"

Usage examples of "mansards".

Here they'll chip lovingly at our spires, mansards, turrets, parapets, belfries, water tanks, flower pots, pigeon lofts and chimneys.

It took up a good chunk of land and was lousy with gables and mansards and spires and all sorts of other features that you don't see much on Fifth Avenue these days, including a three-story aviary.

The waitress could live here, in a nice little house with mansards and gambrels.