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mansard Arch.|ˈmænsəd|
[a. F. mansarde (toit en mansarde), f. name of François Mansard, French architect, 1598–1666.]
a. A form of curb-roof, in which each face of the roof has two slopes, the lower one steeper than the upper. Usually mansard roof.
1734Builder's Dict. II. s.v. Roof, This last is particularly called a Mansard, from M. Mansard, a famous French Architect, the Inventor. 1842Gwilt Archit. 547 The Mansard roof,..with us called a Curb roof. 1873Miss Thackeray Wks. (1891) I. 18 They lived in a tall house, with a mansard roof. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad I. 32 Foreign youth..go to the University to put a mansard roof on their whole general education.
b. (See quot. and booby n.1 3.)
1882Kemp Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 3) 552 Mansard, an American term for a booby hatch.
c. Comb., as mansard-roofed adj.
1887J. E. Taylor Tourist's Guide Suffolk 31 The Tower Ramparts, where the red-tiled, mansard-roofed cottages have been built on the very top. 1915E. Atkinson Johnny Appleseed 80 From there he saw the white mansard-roofed mansion.
Hence ˈmansarded a.
1903Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 2/1 Handsome little hôtels, mansarded and œil de bœuf'd. 1951W. Sansom Face of Innocence viii. 100 Each pantiled or mansarded or beamed façade. 1962Listener 5 Apr. 592/1 Why should we have to suffer tall mansarded roofs?
Senses a–c in Dict. become 1 a, 2, 3. Add: Also mansarde. [1.] b. A storey or apartment under a mansard roof.
1886A. T. Ritchie Lett. (1924) x. 197 A remarkable lady who managed Normandy and who received emperors in her mansarde. 1938S. Beckett Murphy ix. 162 The garret that he now saw was not an attic, nor yet a mansarde, but a genuine garret. 1945E. Bowen Demon Lover 121 Glazed-in balconies and French-type mansardes. 1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (1975) i. 161 They'd lived in the same drafty mansarde in the Liebigstrasse in Munich. |