Definition of "mansard" [mansard]

• The upper story formed by the lower slope of a mansard roof. (noun)

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• "A man of average height must stoop under the beams of the little mansard chamber in No. 20 Bonngasse."
• "His mansard-roofed summer mansion- called Bleak House - stood at what is now 13th and Geranium until it was torn down in 1916."
• "It has a mansard roof, and is in northern California."