dormer
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The roof and an upstairs dormer window of the property were severely damaged by fire.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
So, days ago, when I looked at Angel’s text, I saw a photo of a completed dormer poking out of a steep slate roof on a century-old home.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Tucked behind tall hedges and 12-foot gates, the 11,500-square-foot manor features dormer windows and Juliet balconies across the exterior.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2021
That something might be a chimney, a plumbing vent pipe, a powered attic fan, a turbine vent or a dormer, or it might be where two roof surfaces intersect.
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2019
The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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