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roofline

n. the profile made by a series of roofs

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Roofline

Roofline is used to describe the fascia, soffits, bargeboards and cladding that forms the frontage immediately below the roof and the eaves of most homes. These are traditionally made from wood, but can also be made of plastics, such as polyvinyl chloride.

Usage examples of "roofline".

Through the live oak trees, I could see the shingled roofline and the fieldstone chimney that Oscar had built with his own hands.

Some of the more wired dissidents of Novy Petrograd had cobbled together something which they, in turn, called a management information system: cameras squatted with hooded cyclopean eyes atop the garrets and rooflines of the city, feeding images into the digital nervous system of the revolution.

The puky, pea-green crescent of paint exposed at the roofline of the car made Sam think he was looking at an old Mazda.

It was definitely charming, with its little decks and odd outcurving windows and its mitre-saw filigree decorations along the roofline.

He turned about slowly, his eyes tracing the contours of rooflines and alleyways.

Sleepy chickens stirred on their roosts along the rooflines of the sheds.

The house was like a prison now, all light lost from the black walls and irregular chimneyed roofline.

The irregular roofline, turreted and chimneyed, made a grim outline against the stars.

Rooflines, ornamental chimney pots, the odd high window box stuffed with dark winter pansies, and pigeons swooping and scissoring like lords of the sky.

Up ahead, the roofline dropped one story, revealing external girders and catwalks behind a false front of numbered blocks that looked like stone.

The pic was taken of a man exiting a small foreign car, a Ladia Mike thought from the roofline.

Long, low, incredibly sleek, it had a chopped roofline, narrow windows, and frenched headlights.

A tessellation of quatrefoils and blind multifoils ran riot at the roofline.

The stucco exterior was as smooth and white as frosting on a wedding cake, roofline and windows edged with plaster garlands, rosettes, and shell motifs that might have been piped out of a pastry tube.

Built in a jaunty domestic style, like cottages blown up to the scale of hospitals or sanitoria, these were exceedingly ornate and elaborate structures, among the largest and most complicated ever built of wood, with wandering rooflines robustly punctuated with towers and turrets and every other mark of architectural busyness the Victorian mind could devise.