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eaves

noun as in overhang

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Every roof includes long eaves to protect peasants from the frequent rains.

All the writing is done at home, in my bedroom, up under the eaves of the house.

Eaves, who has been a cruise passenger in the past, says it is his “duty to the future” to be a catalyst for change.

Your old homestead is the loveliest place around, with its deep eaves and dormer-windows and vines.

Husky crows awake in the pine trees, and doves under the temple eaves.

They climbed a ladder and found the barn-swallow's nest plastered under the eaves of the barn.

So still was the place that the caged cricket hanging from the eaves of Um's distant room beat time like an elfin metronome.

The gallery above is an open eaves gallery like those in north Italy.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to eaves, such as: rim, and soffit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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