dormer

Having had "a brief look at the roof space" on the applicant's house, he said things such as dormer windows could reduce roof space, meaning "less panels" could be installed.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

A dormer is a roofed structure for a window.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

A steep roof and dormer windows accentuate the traditional style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2020

That something might be a chimney, a plumbing vent pipe, a powered attic fan, a turbine vent or a dormer, or it might be where two roof surfaces intersect.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2019

But Werner carries the receiver up to his attic dormer and studies it for hours.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Their dormers hadn’t been built yet; the lawns hardly had grass; the trees were plants held steady by sticks, a piece of paper attached by wire to the branches: “Apple tree.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Sixteen months earlier on our first call, Angel told me she had gone to the library to read about framing and building dormers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

The architectural towers sport cupolas, buttresses, dormers and booming cannons, and they’re decorated with floral garlands, war-trophy cartouches and jewel-toned colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

A massive mansard roof with dormers, tall windows and paired doors at the above-grade entrance all indicate Second Empire.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021

Nothing of the houses but the roof sticks out above the snow, and the winter-doors may be set under the eaves or in the roof itself, like dormers.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin