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Definition of Mansards
1. mansard [n] - See also: mansard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mansards
Literary usage of Mansards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"... the sidewalk line and taken in all cases through the centre of the facade of
the house to be erected, including attics, cornices and mansards shall not ..."
2. Rational Building by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1895)
"... of this useful invention the term of ''mansards'* has becn applied from that
time onward to this sort of windows just as if all the civil buildings, ..."
3. Metals in America's Historic Buildings: Uses and Preservation Treatments by Margot Gayle, John G. Waite (1992)
"33 Cluster Tiling or Shingles, ROOFING, mansards, GABLES AND SIDING, Attractive.
Cheap. ... This is particularly adapted for gables, mansards and siding. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"squalid street where a dull gleam from the mansards is the only light; we follow
them to the Seine; we hear the awful spash of the water: and before we know ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1873)
"No more wooden mansards beyond the reach of water! No more conflagration-boxes
on their tops! This is the lesson which this fire teaches, and if we profit ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"... without lucarnes (or "mansards," as they were ultimately termed, in honour of
the great architect,) and with the ground and first stories laid out in ..."
7. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1873)
"The great apostles of this new revival were the two mansards—uncle and nephew—Italians
by descent, but neither of them men at all equal to the opportunities ..."
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