pantile

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A quiet, steep lane leads down through fishermen's cottages with their orange pantile roofs to a waterside hotel and the sea.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

It was then clad in black weather boarding and a pantile roof, connecting it with traditional Suffolk architecture.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023

In 1705 he was able, to boast that he had reduced his debts in spite of many difficulties from 17,000£. to 5,000£., but these sums included liabilities resulting from the failure of his pantile factory.

From Daniel Defoe by Minto, William

The roof once carried the medieval "pantile," which is an "S"-shaped clay tile about thirteen inches long, with a nob at one end to catch on to the roofing strips.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

And among them, like gulls before the wind, blew dollops of spray and chunks of froth, with every now and then a slate or pantile.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)