The story formed by a mansard roof is usually called the garret. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I think a mansard gives a handsome look to a house. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Street Mourning]
Won't make up for losing that mansard rook though. From Wordnik.com. [Work Begins on TAG's New Building] Reference
It has a mansard roof, and is in northern California. From Wordnik.com. [Bryson's 'Short History' Of Household Objects] Reference
“Just the mansard attic where the servants sleep.”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Informer]
At one time they went mad over the French roof, or mansard. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
It was two stories high, crowned with a French mansard roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Workmen on ladders were installing a bright new mansard roof. From Wordnik.com. [Death in Monaco] Reference
The house was built in the day of the mansard roof, and is not. From Wordnik.com. [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference
That big gabled affair with the mansard roof on Franklin Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [THE GIFT] Reference
Thick walls crowned by a mansard roof spoke of a respectable age. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
The mansard roofs were topped with eye-catching gargoyles and angels. From Wordnik.com. [Starlit] Reference
I tell him he will bring out a mansard roof and jig-sawed eaves next. From Wordnik.com. [The Assos Journals of Francis H. Bacon] Reference
Under the roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The manor is a plain gray house with steep mansard roofs, of the time of. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
The first-floor windows were very tall; the floor above was mansard-roofed. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Lazy Burglar]
Her former small brick house with its mansard roof was set on a half-acre lot. From Wordnik.com. [CRUEL AND UNUSUAL] Reference
On that side rose, under a green trellis, the mansard of the neighboring house. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Second Empire elements are: dormer windows, high mansard roof and iron cresting. From Wordnik.com. [Inverness Town House - Victorian public architecture] Reference
It's terra cotta and limestone facade and mansard roof have always been a balm to the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Dubai Is Good for Something!] Reference
The mansard-roofed triplex looks like a mansion in the sky, on the inside and the outside. From Wordnik.com. [© Prudential Douglas Elliman 1. $125...] Reference
Another mansard goes up in flames, this one at Palazzo Barbarigo Duodo on the Canal Grande. From Wordnik.com. [30 Major Fires in Venice] Reference
(Soundbite of song "mansard Roof") Mr. KOENIG: (Singing) I see mansard roof through the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Vampire Weekend's Debut Worth the Hype] Reference
The three-storey bakery itself had a central square tower with a soft-ridged mansard-style roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Roger strode to the small oval window in the mansard roof, and tried to see down into the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
One of the first jobs was to remove the old, ugly fake mansard roof from the front of the property. From Wordnik.com. [Work Begins on TAG's New Building] Reference
You'll also see very short, wide windows in the back, especially on the mansard-roofed brownstones. From Wordnik.com. [The Peek-a-Boo Cornice] Reference
This solemn looking building with the mansard roof was once the center of high society in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Something Fishy] Reference
A man of average height must stoop under the beams of the little mansard chamber in No. 20 Bonngasse. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The old exterior, with its red mansard roof and white walls, was replaced with a modern flat roof and stucco facade. From Wordnik.com. [On McDonald's Menu: Variety, Caution] Reference
Haverstraw, New York, stands a mansard-roofed house that occupies a peculiar place in our collective store of images. From Wordnik.com. [Someplace Like Home] Reference
From the cornice over the frieze angled a mansard roof of man-sized green tiles glinting metallically in the early light. From Wordnik.com. [Cadmian's Choice]
The seven-story Beaux-Arts property, built in 1901, faces the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has an elegant mansard roof. From Wordnik.com. [A List Of The Year's Priciest Residential Real Estate PurchasesMost Expensive Home Sales 2006] Reference
People often referred to it as "The Charles Addams House," because it had a mansard roof topped by a lacy ironwork cresting. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
The lyrics take up romance (on and off-campus), lies and, often, real estate, from mansard roofs to brownstones in San Juan. From Wordnik.com. [CMJ Music Marathon: Vampire Weekend — Neatness Freaks - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Dumpsters have come and gone and come again in the driveway, filling up with material from inside the three-story mansard-roofed structure. From Wordnik.com. [A Plainfield Painted Lady Bares All] Reference
Last album, I learned what a mansard roof and an oxford comma were. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Adele's is located at 1112 North Carson Street in a historic, mansard-roofed house built in. From Wordnik.com. [Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories] Reference
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