mansard
noun
, -sərd\
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Some rooms have special features like a wooden Versailles parquet on the first floor or Parisian mansards on the top floor. — Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, "The Best Room at...Hotel Splendide Royal in Paris," 8 Jan. 2019 The architects restored the exterior of the building, transforming its dilapidated white siding into something closer to the building’s original state with a mansard roof, cornices, and trim. — Liz Stinson, Curbed, "1880s Victorian renovated into sustainable emergency shelter for families," 23 July 2018 The cheapest rooms have sloping mansard roofs that could be problematic for tall guests; the nicest rooms have a small terrace. — Laura Itzkowitz, Condé Nast Traveler, "5 Best Day Trips from Rome," 5 Mar. 2018 When the circa 1850, mansard-capped mansion at 168 Filors Lane in Stony Point, NY went up for sale earlier this year, the listing quickly went viral. — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, "The Most Incredible Estate Sale Is Happening This Weekend in New York," 1 Dec. 2017 GREENFIELD - With McDonald's ripping the double mansard roofs off of all its restaurants and generally updating the restaurants, the two McDonald's on Highway 100 in Greenfield appear to be next. — Jane Ford-stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "McDonald's proposes remodeling 2 restaurants on Highway 100 in Greenfield," 10 July 2018 It was originally built around 1871 in the Italianate style with a mansard roof as the 14th police precinct station house, and is across the street from DeSalvio Playground. — Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, "Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions," 27 Feb. 2018 More than a dozen steep mansard roofs with inset windows branch out around the sides. — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, "Curves and angles intersect to give $8.5M Orchard Lake mansion its grandeur," 21 Oct. 2017 The coastal retreat has a red mansard roof and three towers, and looks out on granite outcroppings. — Condé Nast Traveler, "Wentworth by the Sea," 20 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mansard.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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