pantile
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpantʌɪl/
Noun
pantile (plural pantiles)
- A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S shape.
- 1977, Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, Penguin Classics 2003, p. 8:
- The houses of the estancias shrank behind screens of poplar and eucalyptus. Some of the houses had pantile roofs, but most were of metal sheet, painted red.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 103:
- All the gneiss roofing slates have vanished, to be replaced by pantiles painting patchworks of all possible orange hues.
- 2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in the garden – and moss on the roof [print version: Don't panic about an overhyped invasion, 25 October 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
- Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.
- 1977, Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, Penguin Classics 2003, p. 8:
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