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Mansard: for French architects thus named, use Mansart. mansard 1. a roof having two slopes on both sides and both ends, the lower slopes being steeper than the upper 2. an attic having such a roof |
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We've come up with clever ways to hide rooftop equipment--using mansards and parapets--that really reflect what you would have seen on a 19th century main street. In addition, Mercantile constructed a roofing system that was a combination of a flat rubber roof enhanced with shingle-covered mansards. The rest of the square, when first laid out in the 1730s, was fronted by noblemen's palaces in two grand stories with Classical orders and mansards, though irregularly grouped and with varying plot widths. |
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