rooved

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A form of roofed — Having a roof, or a particular kind of roof.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiverooved (not comparable)
  1. 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 1
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    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 1

    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.

    1972 May 26, “Hampton Court to Windsor”, in Kensington Post, page 36, column 2

    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; […]

    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

    The 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 1

    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!

    1985 January/February, “Aliens at the co-op”, in Northern UFO News, number 111, page nine

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