How to Use mansard in a Sentence

mansard

noun
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  • The mansard roof is a dead giveaway that this home takes its cue from French design.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • More than a dozen steep mansard roofs with inset windows branch out around the sides.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Its impressive mansard asphalt shingle roof makes the home stand out on the street, which backs up to Popieluszko Court.
    — courant.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Googie style fell out of fashion in the 1970s as fast-food style favored dark colors, brick and mansard roofs.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The coastal retreat has a red mansard roof and three towers, and looks out on granite outcroppings.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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, 8 Jan. 2019
  • 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 Mar. 2018
  • Initially a sign bearing the words Germania Life adorned its mansard roof.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Even with the new riverfront station, 23 other railroad lines serving the metro area still blew steam outside the mansard-roofed Union Depot.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity.com, 30 June 2017
  • The steep mansard roof was interrupted by ornate gables with rose windows.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Before it was finished, Mr. McMahon and his team had also repaired the building’s facade and mansard roof.
    — Tim McKeough, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • That facade, research showed, was originally cast iron on its lower four floors and sheet metal on its fifth level, the dormered mansard roof.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Up top, a ventilating tower was handsomely fitted out with a four-sided mansard roof pierced by round-arched dormers.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • As was typical for a man of such prominence, his home was constructed in the then-fashionable French Second Empire style, with a decadent mansard roof and a large central tower.
    — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Like the early Chicago towers, the Adolphus had a tripartite design, with a three-story granite base surmounted by a 14-story shaft of red tapestry brick, capped by a slate mansard roof.
    — Dallas News, 24 May 2022
  • McDonald’s new prototype became a low-profile mansard roof and brick design with shingle texture.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In addition to Thurlow Lodge, his 50-room residence, Latham erected an ornate, one-story barn with an elaborate mansard roof.
    — Michael Svanevik, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Those photos were about all that remained after a fire that started Thursday afternoon and burned into Friday destroyed much of the redbrick landmark with the white trim and mansard roof that has helped define Northfield for generations.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • French Renaissance stucco and stone house in Homeland is architecturally distinctive with its mansard roof, dormers, plantation shutters and decorative stonework at the corners and framing the front door and windows.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • 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, 23 July 2018
  • His houses offered elegant scale and symmetry, dramatic entrances (often a pair of tall Pullman doors puncturing a mansard roof) and perfectly proportioned rooms punctuated by neoclassical columns and elliptical windows.
    — Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017

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