Definition of "roofage" []

• The material prepared for building roofs or covering them; generally the covering material only, as sheathing, shingles, slates, and the like. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I looked under the broken roofage of the boughs upon a blossoming jungle of shrubs and plants which seemed to have been called into life by a more potent sun."
• "The old shabby church showed, as usual, its quaint extent of roofage and the relievo skeleton on one gable, still blackened with the fire of thirty years ago."
• "From my bed I looked across the red-tiled terrace to the stone-pines with their velvet roofage and the blue-peaked hills of"