peaked roof

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English

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A building with a peaked roof in the sense of rising to form a ridge
A tower with a pyramidal peaked roof. The view includes a range of other, less conspicuous peaked roof shapes.
Thatch, as a medium, is suited to the construction of conical peaked roofs, as in rondavels

Noun

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peaked roof (plural peaked roofs or peaked rooves)

  1. Any roof with at least two pitches rising to form a peak, said peak in the form either of a ridge or a point. Types of pitched roof include: the open gable roof, box gable roof, Dutch gable roof, hip roof, jerkinhead roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, saltbox roof, pyramid hip roof or any other polygonal hip roof; but do not include the shed roof, or the butterfly roof.
  2. More generally, any roof rising to either a ridge or a point, typically either conical, polygonal, or with its pitches forming a pyramidal top.