turf-roofed

adjective

Of a building, having a turf-roof.

Meanings

adjectiveturf-roofed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a building, having a turf-roof.

    Straight before him was a field of barley with ears so large and full that he had never seen their like, and through this field a narrow path led up to a green turf-roofed hut at the other end of the cornfield.

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 48

Translations

Finnish turvekattoinen, nurmikattoinen
  • turvekattoinenhaving a turf-roof
  • nurmikattoinenhaving a turf-roof
  • maakattoinenhaving a turf-roof
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