Roof

Roof

A roof is the covering on the uppermost part of a building. A roof protects the building and its contents from the effects of weather and the invasion of animals. Structures that require roofs range from a letter box to a cathedral or stadium, dwellings being the most numerous.

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Famous quotes containing the word roof:

    “I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.”
    —George Borrow (1803–1881)

    “Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
    On its roof did float and flow”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “Come into animal presence.
    No man is so guileless as
    the serpent. The lonely white
    rabbit on the roof is a star
    twitching its ears at the rain.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)