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French roof

NOUN
  1. a mansard roof with sides that are nearly perpendicular

How To Use French roof In A Sentence

  • A park full of merry hay-makers; gay red and blue waggons; stalwart horses switching off the flies; dark avenues of tall elms; groups of abele, 'tossing their whispering silver to the sun'; and amid them the house, -- a great square red-brick mass, made light and cheerful though by quoins and windows of white Sarsden stone, with high peaked French roofs, broken by louvres and dormers, haunted by a thousand swallows and starlings. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
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