dormer
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So, days ago, when I looked at Angel’s text, I saw a photo of a completed dormer poking out of a steep slate roof on a century-old home.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
As their dormer bungalow falls into council tax band E, they won't be eligible for the £150 rebate being offered.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2022
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
The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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
A few have Asian-inspired elements like flared or upturned columns or dormers, while others incorporate floral motifs and stained glass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
They can add copper strips at the top of all the ridges on the roofs and dormers that will arrest the aging process of the shingles.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 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
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