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
“Hi, friend. It’s Angel. The dormer went really well,” she wrote.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Stone, shutters and dormer windows bring colonial style to the exterior, and inside, the grand foyer showcases a Paul R. Williams trademark: the spiral staircase.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2022
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
But then why, peeking out the dormer window, did I see, on the morning after our second night in the attic, a tank rolling by our front lawn?
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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