rooftop
See also: Rooftop
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rooftop (plural rooftops)
- (somewhat formal) The area atop a roof.
- 1993, Liz Rothlein, Multicultural Books for Primary Grades:
- Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 79–80:
- Riding the District west of Hammersmith, you immediately know something exciting is coming up, because at Ravenscourt Park you are level with the rooftops.
- The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.
- 2012, Ernest Alanki, The Chocolate Shop Perverts:
- The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop.
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top surface of a roof
References edit
- “rooftop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.