What is "slate roof"

Usage examples of "slate roof".

The floor was strewn with bits of the monks' leavings: nutshells, an apple core, scraps of slate roof tiles on which messages had been written in petty contravention of the silence vowsit looked more like a cage for apes or festival bears than a room where men of God came to sing the Lord's praises.

Then there was only the sound of the rain itself beating down on the slate roof of the brewhouse.

On the far side of the field he saw a small lean-to, no more than three stone walls and a slate roof, that was an open shelter for sheep in winter, or a storeplace for winter feed.

The manor house was really little more than a tremendously overgrown farmhouse, two rambling stories of brick and stone under a slate roof, added to again and again by generations of Brynes.

Beneath him, the slate roof of the keep which housed the library reflected back the heat of morning sunlight.

Fredo gestures toward a larger house, with a split-slate roof and moss-tinged brick walls.