lourde toiture à quatre niveaux
English translation: heavy four-level roofing
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| 4 | heavy (looking) roof, |
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| 4 | heavy four-level roofing |
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| 4 | A request for more context:) |
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heavy (looking) roof, Explanation: (lourde can represent an aesthetic judgment) It could even be heavy roofing material with four layers? |
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heavy four-level roofing Explanation: Toiture is not necessarily "roof", but everything that goes into one (including slate). |
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A request for more context:) Explanation: I hate to do this to you, but could we have more context here? Modern roofing does actually go on in layers (having re-roofed the first house that I owned,with my own labor, I can attest to that), with first the underlayment, nowadays plywood, then a water-proofing barrier, and then a protective covering, such as slate or tiles or shingles. Roofs can be heavy, and some roofing materials are heavier than others. And, for example, some materials are light enough to have several layers of re-roofing before the whole thing is too heavy for the structure beneath and you have tear back down to the first layer. For example, you can do either two or three layers of shingles (I forget now). In any case, that may be more than you ever wanted to learn about roofing, but that's why we could use to know a bit more. Does this have to do with the art/literary questions that we've been seeing today? Or is it a separate text? |
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