reed-roofedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

reed-roofed (not comparable)

1. (also poetic) Of a building or structure, covered with a roof made from reeds, typically layered as thatch for waterproofing and insulation.
   • 1895, John Byrne Leicester Warren (3rd baron De Tabley.), Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical, page 136:

     What is this homespun comedy of Love, / Rank with the furrow-cleaving herdsman's toil? / What is this vineyard lodge, this red alcove, / Reed-roofed among the orchards of the oil?

   • 1958, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Department (contributor), Sunset‎, volume 121, page 62:

     Opening the wall to the reed-roofed patio was like adding a new room to small house.

   • 1969, Elsa M. Redmond, Joseph W. Hopkins, Mary G. Hodge, Irrigation & the Cuicatec Ecosystem, A Study of Agriculture & Civilization in North Central Oaxaca. 1983-1984, page 58:

     All the reed-roofed temples were decorated with "mixcoas," or "cloud-serpents," representing the Chichimec deity, Mixcoatl.