Definition of "roofe" [roofe]

• Obsolete spelling of roof. (noun)

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• "The house of this idol is all of beaten gold, namely the roofe, the pauement, and the sieling of the wall within and without."
• "Stories like this make me contemplate taking that one step closer meeting in rooms where the roofe thereof is decked with images of starres gilted."
• "III. iv, a 1577 that the chamber was so called ‘because at the first all the roofe thereof was decked with images of starres gilted’, appears to have no confirmatory evidence, but is highly probable."