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Definition of Rooflike
1. resembling a roof [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rooflike
Literary usage of Rooflike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man in the Past, Present, and Future: A Popular Account of the Results of by Ludwig Büchner, Peter Eckler (1894)
"... its forehead is very narrow and low, the skull itself depressed and rooflike
in the middle; the brain very scanty. With it there were six other skulls ..."
2. Man in the Past, Present and Future: A Popular Account of the Results of by Ludwig Büchner (1872)
"... its forehead is very narrow and low, the skull itself depressed and rooflike
in the middle; the brain very scanty. With it there were 6 other skulls ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A rooflike structure usually supported on pillars or projecting from a wall, and
serving rather a decorative than a protective purpose. It may be movable, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... been previously divided into a group of three parts as above suggested, and
if to that were added four or five stories more in the way of a rooflike or ..."
5. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"The commonest was a plain sarcophagus, all of it buried except its rooflike lid,
or a similar lid covering a rock-hewn trench. But there were also chamber ..."
6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1898)
"... Dictionary the word "awning" is- denned as follows: "A rooflike cover, usually
of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, ..."
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