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- not comparableuncommonUncommon form of roofed.
The town itself is one of flat-rooved houses, stretched resources and economic decay.
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 15 more examples
From in front of our bungalow we can look across a shallow valley to the white-washed and tin-rooved houses in Akropong.
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 1Just 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.
1972 May 26, “Hampton Court to Windsor”, in Kensington Post, page 36, column 2Only 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; […]
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 20The thatched-rooved, mud houses were set on fire during clashes in Deopar village after a 48-hour lull in the fighting.
1983 March 2, “More killed in new Assam clash with Muslim immigrants”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 8, column 1That 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!
1985 January/February, “Aliens at the co-op”, in Northern UFO News, number 111, page nine
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