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   Piffin | Oct 24, 2007 02:50am | #1

   i'd call it a sweeping hip or a japanese hip, but that does mean anything formal.
   Pagoda maybe?

    

    

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   Novy | Oct 24, 2007 02:51am | #2

    I want to call it a French roof but I am probably wrong. You see alot of curved rooves in Quebec...........

    

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   IdahoDon | Oct 24, 2007 03:20am | #3

   Since it sweeps clear to the tip, rather than simply flaring at the bottom it reminds me of something oriental.  Not a sliver of help to you, but also not common on our local victorians.  Sometimes a victorian flare can be quite extensive, but it's still mostly straight and it's the eye that makes it seem more curved.

   That's a sharp roof though.  I'll take one.

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   mike_maines | Oct 24, 2007 03:24am | #4

   I'd just call it a curved hip roof.  Definitely suggests Japanese or Chinese roofs, or French Mansard roofs, but I don't know of any formal term for it.  Maybe "Curved-Hip Roof" is more accurate.

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   MarkH | Oct 24, 2007 04:12am | #5

   That's your old bellcast roof.  Fer real.

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   Piffin | Oct 24, 2007 05:24am | #6

   http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/rhs/terms.html#04Thanks for fleshing out that hollow spot inside my head 

    

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   brucet9 | Oct 24, 2007 06:28am | #7

   Thanks for the link to archy terms. I not only learned what a Bellcast is but the difference between mansard and gambrel.
   BruceT