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Brewer's: Mansard Roof
also called the curb roof. A roof in which the rafters, instead of forming a , are broken on each side into an elbow. It was devised by Francois Mansard, the French architect, to give height to attics.
(1598-1666.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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