Roofing

Description

Any material used to to cover roofs. Examples of roofing materials include: clay tile, asbestos shingle, asphalt shingle, slate, wood, sheet metal, terne metal, tar paper, and thatch.

Resources and Citations

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "Roof." Accessed 7 Sept. 2004 .

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000