rooved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: From in front of our bungalow we can look across a shallow valley to the white-washed and tin-rooved houses in Akropong.
ref: 1961 December 3, “People Friendly, Too: Students Enthusiastic In Ghana, Gibson Finds”, in Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., page 7-C, column 1:
text: Just along Hampton Way at Hinckley Wood is the Queens Pavilion, a complex of conical-rooved buildings where you will find magnificent international food and an excellent selection of wines.
ref: 1972 May 26, “Hampton Court to Windsor”, in Kensington Post, page 36, column 2:
text: Only two years before a visitor had commented on the ‘picturesque and pleasing effects’ of the ‘lofty cocoanut trees, on the shingle-rooved houses, standing on mahogany pillars some ten feet above the ground’, though a more critical observer thought they looked as if stranded by a receding ebb-tide; […]
ref: 1980, Alan George Lewers Shaw, Sir George Arthur, Bart 1784-1854, Superintendent of British Honduras, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land and of Upper Canada, Governor of the Bombay Presidency, Melbourne University Press, →ISBN, page 20:
text: The town itself is one of flat-rooved houses, stretched resources and economic decay.
ref: 1981 October 29, “War in Sudan desert draws little attention”, in The Daily Illini, volume 111, number 47, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.: Illini Publishing Company, page 5, column 1:
text: The thatched-rooved, mud houses were set on fire during clashes in Deopar village after a 48-hour lull in the fighting.
ref: 1983 March 2, “More killed in new Assam clash with Muslim immigrants”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 8, column 1:
text: That same week that I received her letter two others had reached Peter Warrington and I (thanks to our Books) both describing other sightings of UPOs landing or hovering over flat-rooved buildings!
ref: 1985 January/February, “Aliens at the co-op”, in Northern UFO News, number 111, page nine:
text: He would drive along above the little town with its flat, straight roads, iron-rooved houses, hedged gardens.
ref: 1987, Marguerite Poland, Train to Doringbult, London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, pages 89–90:
text: Salt is in a deep valley, with flat-rooved houses built into the hillsides, where protesters took up position, leaving the police at a severe disadvantage.
ref: 1989 April 22, Alan Cowell, “Jordan capital threatened by continuing price riots”, in The Anniston Star, page 2A, column 3:
text: It is partly underground, and consists of a series of chambers in a solid concrete flat-rooved rectangular building, surrounded by a fence.
ref: 1991 February 14, “Death shelter may hold a military secret”, in Liverpool Echo, page 5:
text: From the top there are extensive views over Dinan’s steep-rooved houses to the surrounding countryside (tower open 10.45am–1.15pm, 3–6pm, but avoid going on the hour unless you want to be deafened by the bells!).
ref: 1992, Nigel Tisdall, Brittany, Insight Pocket Guides, →ISBN:
text: We did Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, America’s first shopping center, and at holiday time, the beautifully lit red-tile-rooved stucco buildings, striking fountains and romantic courtyards are never more evocative.
ref: 1993 December, Laura Glenn, “Shopping the Plaza”, in Seen, page 19, column 1:
text: I woke when we reached the outskirts of Benin, a blur of dusty-rooved houses waiting to be washed by the rain.
ref: 1994, Buchi Emecheta, Kehinde, Heinemann, →ISBN, page 77:
text: As you leave Welford, the path cuts a swath through large tracts of wheat and quickly arrives at Weston-on-Avon, a super-cute village with white-washed thatched-rooved houses, but no commerce.
ref: 1996, Frank Booth, The Independent Walker’s Guide to Great Britain: 35 Enchanting Walks in Great Britain’s Charming Landscape, New York, N.Y.: Interlink Books, →ISBN, page 169:
text: There are good views of the Cherni Lom gorge, with the red-rooved houses of Cherven village clinging to the limestone ridges above it.
ref: 1999, Jonathan Bousfield, Dan Richardson, Bulgaria: The Rough Guide, The Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 179:
text: The campsite is excellently made and there are rooved buildings for hammocks and tents.
ref: 2002, Claire Boobbyer, Footprint Guatemala Handbook: The Travel Guide, Footprint Handbooks, →ISBN, page 330:
text: But hey, you know, the sky is this deep azure blue, and you sit on top of one of those flat-rooved houses in the evening, and you look up and the sky is full of stars, and it’s the closest you can get to heaven.
ref: 2005, Catherine Sampson, Out of Mind, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 216:
text: These men went around with wooden pallets with which they shoveled snow off the flat rooved houses.
ref: 2016, Gail Rose Thompson, All the Shah’s Men, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 343:
glosses: Uncommon form of roofed.