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dormer

[dawr-mer] / ˈdɔr mər /
NOUN
loft
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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

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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