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widow’s walk

A flat roof deck or raised observation platform sometimes having a view of the sea, situated on the roof of a house and enclosed by a balustrade or railing; the horizontal roof surface is usually formed by truncating the top of a hipped roof; also called a captain’s walk.

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No references found			This is in part due to the exterior gestures, which include garage-style sliding doors and a new widow's walk along the spine of the roof's apex, as well as Radic's style of interior design, which is both hungrily stark and--comfortingly rustic. Casa A Smiljan Radic by Kolb, Jaffer / The Architectural Review The centrally located community building with its widow's walk cupola relates the complex to the resort city's historic structures, reinforcing the residents' community identity. Cadbury at Lewes by Long-Term Living The posts that hold up the railing of the widow's walk around the outside have corroded to the point that they could easily break off if someone were to put their full weight against them, meaning it's unsafe to maintain the windows without using a lift truck. LEAKY LIGHTHOUSE IN NEED OF FIX by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)			Wide-Row Sowing Wide-Screen Motion Picture wide-throw hinge Wide-Web Coal Mining wideband Wideband ATM Wideman, John Edgar Widener, Harry Elkins Widgeon widget widget set widget-based interface WiDi Widmann, Joseph Viktor Widmannstaetten Structure Widmanstätten figures Widmanstatten patterns Widnes Widor, Charles Marie widow widow & orphan Widow Birds widow of Ephesus widow's mite widow's son of Nain widow's walk widower Widowhood Widrow-Hoff least-mean-squares algorithm Widsith width width control width table Widukind Widukind of Corvey WIE Wiechert, Ernst Wieczorek, Jozef Wieczorek, Józef Wied, Gustav Wied, Martina Wied, Martína Wiedemann Effect Wiedemann's additivity law Wiedemann, Gustav Wiedemann-Franz Law Wiegand effect Wiegand module Wiegand wire Wieland Wieland, Christoph Martin			Widow Birds Widow Exemption Widow Exemptions Widow monkey widow of Ephesus Widow spider Widow spider widow woman Widow's Allowance Widow's Allowances widow's benefit widow's benefit Widow's Benefits Widow's Benefits Widow's chamber Widow's chamber widow's cruse widow's cruses Widow's election Widow's election Widow's Exemption Widow's Exemptions widow's mite widow's mite widow's mites widow's mites Widow's or Widower's Contributory Pension widow's peak widow's peaks widow's son of Nain widow's walk widow's walks widow's walks widow's weeds Widow's Weeds (album) Widow's-peak Widow-and-orphan stock Widow-and-Orphan Stocks Widow-hunter Widow-in-mourning Widow-maker Widow-maker widow-makers widow-makers Widow-wail widow’s widow’s estate widow’s portion widowed widowed widowed widowed widowed Widowed Mother's Allowance Widowed Persons Association of California Widowed Persons Service, Inc. Widowed White Female Widowed White Male widower widower widower

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