mansard

She climbed through a mansard window in the roof and watched as it hovered above.

Haggerty sold that building, but he’s still a landlord and still in love with his 1890s’ house with a mansard roof and fish scale shingles that he bought for $30,000 in 1971.

Mr. Sempé gave most of his work, especially portrayals of Paris, a heavy veneer of nostalgia: the city’s traditional mansard roofs, roads full of Citroëns and baguettes peeking from shopping bags.

Some have gable roofs; others have mansard roofs.

Simulated cracks slash across brickwork on townhouse chimney stacks, and mansards seem to be melting.