How to Use mansard in a Sentence

mansard

noun
  • More than a dozen steep mansard roofs with inset windows branch out around the sides.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The mansard roof is a dead giveaway that this home takes its cue from French design.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The coastal retreat has a red mansard roof and three towers, and looks out on granite outcroppings.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The cheapest rooms have sloping mansard roofs that could be problematic for tall guests; the nicest rooms have a small terrace.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The building opposite has a little round window in its mansard roof, and sometimes the face of a small girl appears there.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Its impressive mansard asphalt shingle roof makes the home stand out on the street, which backs up to Popieluszko Court.
    — courant.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Initially a sign bearing the words Germania Life adorned its mansard roof.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Googie style fell out of fashion in the 1970s as fast-food style favored dark colors, brick and mansard roofs.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Some rooms have special features like a wooden Versailles parquet on the first floor or Parisian mansards on the top floor.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Others kept lists of mansard roof homes, or a searchable list of friends’ and family’s astrological signs.
    — Adrienne So, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2023
  • On the other hand, hip roofs, gambrel roofs, mansard roofs, and other common roof styles tend to heavily alter a home's overall look.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 June 2024
  • The duplex penthouse atop a former fire station features wall-to-wall skylight windows that follow the slope of the mansard roof and a working fireplace.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Apr. 2023
  • McDonald’s new prototype became a low-profile mansard roof and brick design with shingle texture.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Topping the red-brick structure is a monumental metal mansard roof, first built with batten-seam terne metal and later upgraded to copper.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Behind gates and towering hedges on almost a third of an acre, the striking terracotta mansard-roof structure is fronted by an attached two-car garage and a gravel motor court.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Its Second Empire style—stone façades, slate mansard roofs, and rich sculptural detailing—cemented its status as a symbol of urban progress.
    — María Casbas, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Its ochre facade and sloped, Parisian-style mansard roofs are subtle yet form one of the most recognizable façades in the city — especially with Table Mountain as a backdrop.
    — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024
  • Nestled in a romantic Parisian setting, couples can tie the knot alongside up to 100 guests surrounded by a cityscape of mansard roofs, casement windows and clustered chimneystacks.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 9 July 2025
  • As was typical for a man of such prominence, his home was constructed in the then-fashionable French Second Empire style, with a decadent mansard roof and a large central tower.
    — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 26 Apr. 2017
  • In addition to Thurlow Lodge, his 50-room residence, Latham erected an ornate, one-story barn with an elaborate mansard roof.
    — Michael Svanevik, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
  • The Comet opened its doors in 1984 and tapped into the diner’s retro roots, stripping off later additions, including a mansard roof, to reveal the structure’s original chrome-and-steel dome.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Its distinctive mansard roof, cast-iron details and granite columns reflected the optimism of the post-Civil War era, and stand out next to its neighboring neoclassical buildings.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 May 2026
  • Like the early Chicago towers, the Adolphus had a tripartite design, with a three-story granite base surmounted by a 14-story shaft of red tapestry brick, capped by a slate mansard roof.
    — Dallas News, 24 May 2022
  • Built in 1866, this little cottage at 312 East 53rd Street has all the charming details — clapboard façade, mansard roof, extra-wide floorboards.
    — Nora Deligter, Curbed, 12 June 2026
  • The diner was reborn in 1984 as the Comet tapping into the diner’s retro roots, stripping off later additions, including a mansard roof, to reveal the structure’s original chrome and steel dome.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Standing as tall as six stories, these large structures with mansard roofs provided modern apartments while, along with the broad streets, gave Paris a visual unity—along with giving ample subject matter to the Impressionists for their paintings!
    — Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Those photos were about all that remained after a fire that started Thursday afternoon and burned into Friday destroyed much of the redbrick landmark with the white trim and mansard roof that has helped define Northfield for generations.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • French Renaissance stucco and stone house in Homeland is architecturally distinctive with its mansard roof, dormers, plantation shutters and decorative stonework at the corners and framing the front door and windows.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Past a circular motor court, a host of elegant design features present themselves, from its stone and limestone facade, where a towering arched doorway tucked into a portico embellished with Corinthian columns makes for a grand entrance to the home, to its mansard roof.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
  • So color us way impressed with 25 Aston Road in Brookline, a to-the-studs transformation that took this traditional brick and mansard roof home and reinvented it into an architecturally inventive gem.
    — Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 30 Jan. 2025

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