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n. - A beam laid along the edge of a protective covering that forms the top of a building which provides attachment for the upper end of rafters

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  • His rooftree was the Arizona sky, and his home the place where his adopted master camped at night.
  • The correct costume had to be hand-made by each individual or 'rooftree' (family group) and while the everyday 'habit' of
  • "rooftree," but another instinct, as deeply rooted, and more ready to exhibit itself, was also moving within him.
  • To see the woman they should be struggling on the rooftree to become
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