pantile

Example Sentences

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It was then clad in black weather boarding and a pantile roof, connecting it with traditional Suffolk architecture.

From BBC

This new hotel on Lustica Bay, overlooking the Adriatic, has been built to blend in with local design, with its red pantile roofs and limestone walls.

From The Guardian

There was a scrabbling sound from the roof outside the arches, and he ran to the windowsill to see the first pair of hands grasping the edge of the pantiles and pulling up.

From Literature

The columns are often octagonal, recalling the pillars of ancient Korean temples, while the roofs are sweeping, multi-layered affairs of green pantiles and projecting beams, aping the country’s traditional timber structures in concrete or stone.

From The Guardian

Pan′tiling, a system of tiling with pantiles.

From Project Gutenberg