slate_roof has definitions from the field of architecture
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[ noun ] (architecture) a roof covered with slate

Used in print

(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)

There was the slate_roof of the church ; ivy climbed the red brick walls like a green scaled monster .

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

Mrs._Hewlitt led the birthcontrol league , Mrs._Ryerson was arthritis , and way in the distance could be seen the slate_roof of Ethel_Littleton 's house , a roof that signified gout .

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