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What (who) is roof beams - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Beams (album); Beams (disambiguation)
Curb roof
FOUR-SIDED GAMBREL-STYLE HIP ROOF
Mansard; Mansard Roof; French roof; Curb roof
·- A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.
mansard
FOUR-SIDED GAMBREL-STYLE HIP ROOF
Mansard; Mansard Roof; French roof; Curb roof
['mans?:d, -s?d]
¦ noun
1. a roof having four sides, in each of which the lower part of the slope is steeper than the upper participle
2. Brit. another term for gambrel.
Origin
C18: from Fr. mansarde, named after the 17th-cent. French architect Francois Mansart.
curb roof
FOUR-SIDED GAMBREL-STYLE HIP ROOF
Mansard; Mansard Roof; French roof; Curb roof
¦ noun a roof of which each face has two slopes, the lower one steeper than the upper.
?Brit. a mansard roof.
Examples of use of roof beams
1. Falling roof beams had broken his mother‘s leg and injured her back.
2. The Old Crown has a log–fire burning; lines of silver tankards hang from the roof beams.
3. They arrived in a long convoy of trucks and cars, laden with animals, household belongings, even roof beams.
4. This was, she said, "a very dangerous precedent to set", and the Tories cheered her to the roof beams.
5. "If not the roof beams, destroy the foundations ... Attack Lebanon and also Gaza with plows and with salt, destroy them so no inhabitant remains.