Mansard definition

Mansard means a sloped roof or roof-like facade architecturally comparable to a building wall.
Mansard. Mansard shall mean the lower portion of a roof with two pitches, including a flat-top roof with a mansard portion.
Mansard means a sloped roof or roof-like facade. Signs mounted on the face of a mansard roof are considered wall signs.

Examples of Mansard in a sentence

  • AXA Mansard Insurance Plc (‘the Company’ or 'the parent') and its subsidiaries (together ‘the Group’) underwrite life and non-life insurance contracts.

  • AXA Mansard Investments Limited was incorporated in January 2008 and its principal activity involves provision of portfolio management services to both individual and corporate clients.

  • Gambrel and Mansard roofs are acceptable for appropriately sized structures.

  • But when you are dealing with somebody's money--in this case the taxpayer's money--there is no gray area.

  • Mansard type roofs may be used providing they meet or exceed the International Building Code and the Texas Windstorm Resistance Code, and do not extend down more than four feet (48 inches).


More Definitions of Mansard

Mansard means the lower portion of a roof with two (2) pitches including a flat-top roof with a mansard portion. "Mansard sign" shall mean any sign attached to the mansard portion of a roof.
Mansard means a roof with two slopes on each side of the four sides, the lower steeper than the upper.
Mansard means a permanent sloped structure attached to a wall of a building having an interior angle greater than forty- five degrees from the horizontal and which derives part or all of its support from the building wall to which it is attached.
Mansard means an inclined decorative roof-like projection that is attached to an exterior building facade.
Mansard means a sloped roof or roofline facade architecturally comparable to a building wall.
Mansard means a sloped roof or roof-like facade architecturally comparable to a building wall. (Ord. 466 § 3, 1994)
Mansard means a wall which has a slope equal to or greater than two vertical feet for each horizontal foot and has been designed to look like a roof.