pantile

Example Sentences

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A quiet, steep lane leads down through fishermen's cottages with their orange pantile roofs to a waterside hotel and the sea.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023

There are about 200 houses in the town, all two stories high, strongly built with stone and covered with pantile.

From A Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William

The roof once carried the medieval "pantile," which is an "S"-shaped clay tile about thirteen inches long, with a nob at one end to catch on to the roofing strips.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

I'll see you turned into a pantile first.

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett