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Define: Pantile

From The Murder Room by P.D. James.
It looked like a picture from a child's storybook with its two ground-floor bay windows on each side of a jutting porch, the two plain windows under the pantile roof, its neat front garden with the paved stone path leading to the front door and a lawn each side bound by a low privet hedge.
From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: pan tile
Function: noun
Etymology: 1pan
Date: 1640
1 : a roofing tile whose cross section is an ogee curve
2 : a roofing tile of which the cross section is an arc of a circle and which is laid with alternate convex and concave surfaces uppermost


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