rooftopn.adj.

1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xxiii. f. 111 Prophets them selues also..like men straught & out of their wits, came running forth & preased into the forefront of the battel, crying oute that God was come among them, and that they had sene him leape down into the temple at the open rofe top.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiv. 611/2 Those fires..taking hold of the roofe-tops of both the royall houses.

1808 Examiner 27 Mar. 199/2 By half past twelve o'clock,..the vivid flames from the windows [were] ascending to the roof top.

1825 J. Boaden Mem. J. P. Kemble II. iii. vi. 474 The houses in the streets adjoining the theatre were crowded to the roof tops.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 193 When day comes, on the roof-top tall or the tower she alights.

1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xviii. 112 Above the roof tops, fantastic as some fructification pushed out by lichen, rose the Gothic spires of the cathedral.

1987 E. North Worldly Goods (1988) ix. 105 She could see over the rooftops that the sky had one star left in it.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane vi. 132 Vessels of all sizes plied its waters, their masts..gliding above the rooftops of bonded warehouses and inns.

1902 K. D. Sweetser Ten Girls from Dickens 116 On his roof-top garden, Jenny Wren and her friend Lizzie were sitting one day.

1957 Billboard 20 May 27/2 There is a roof-top restaurant that handles hot sandwiches and French fries.

1963 House & Garden May 55/2 A rooftop garden in the Palazzo Wolkov.

1968 Fortune Jan. 175/1 His shopping list includes..flare guns to illuminate rooftop snipers and high-intensity lights to blind them.

1972 F. Forsyth Odessa File i. 9 The underground car park..200 yards from the house where he had his roof-top flat.

2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) iii. 61 The Green Zone had no fewer than seven watering holes:..the rooftop bar for General Electric contractors; [etc.].

1935 Discovery Apr. 94/2 He was cautious as to the advent of roof-top landings and city aerodromes.

1945 Independent Record (Helena, Montana) 27 Apr. 1/6 (heading) Rooftop Battle.

1963 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 14 Jan. 22/9 Six hardy inmates of the Windsor State Prison, withstood near-zero weather today as they continued their night-long rooftop protest.

1971 D. A. Yallop To encourage Others ii. 71 The last that Craig remembers is being out in mid-air. The rooftop battle was over.

1994 Computing 6 Oct. 30/1 In all that time, he has not gone stir crazy or staged a roof-top protest.

2003 Time Out N.Y. 28 Aug. 95/3 This week, the Museum for African Art copresents BCM's rooftop performance.