French Roof

- Pavilion of Women's Hospital, New York City. out the United States about 1870 and in succeeding years. It has its name from its fancied resemblance to the French Mansard roof-its object, like that roof, being to gain space in the topmost story. - Imperial roof. See im perial dome , under imperial . - Mansard roof, a form of curb-roof the lower slope of which approaches the vertical, while the upper slope is variable, but much more nearly flat than in the typical curb-roof. The lower section of the roof is pierced with windows. A roof of this type permits the establishment of an upper story, but little inferior to the others, in place of an ordinary garret. It was Mansard Roof. - Château of Maisons Laffitte, France, by François Mansart. first used in the Louvre by Pierre Lescot, about 1550, but has its name from François Mansart (1598-1662), a French architect (uncle of the better-known Jules Hardouin Mansart, the architect of Versailles and of the dome of the In vali des), who brought these roofs into a vogue which they have since retained in France. - Ogee roof. See ogee . -Packsaddle-roof, saddle-back roof. Same as sad dle-roof.-Pavilion roof. See pavilion. Pitch of a roof. See pitch 1. Raised roof, in car - building , a carroof the middle part of which is raised to form a clearstory. Roof of the mouth, the hard palate; the upper wall of the mouth, as far as the bone extends. Compare def. 4.- Square roof, a roof in which the principal rafters meet at a right angle. (See also curb - roof , gambrel - roof , hip - roof .) roof1 (röf), v . t. [ roof1 , n.] 1. To cover with a roof, in any sense of that word. I have not, indeed, seen the remains of any ancient Roman buildings that have not been roofed with either vaults or arches.