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| an arc or a rounded space between cusps, as in the carved decoration of a window or other ornamentation |
| a supporting part of a structure; the area of contact between a supporting beam and other underlying support |
| hip roof | |
| —n | |
| a roof having sloping ends and sides | |
hip roof
roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure, having no vertical ends. The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a roof meet. The degree of such an angle is referred to as the hip bevel. The triangular sloping surface formed by hips that meet at a roof's ridge is called a hip end. A pyramidal hipped roof, also known as a pavilion roof, is hipped equally at all corners and the hips meet at a single peak, but the more common form of hip roof is above a rectangular structure, where a roof ridge meets two hips at either end
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