A-frame

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English

An A-frame house.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɪˌfɹeɪm/
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Noun

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A-frame (plural A-frames)

  1. An architectural structure, in the shape of an "A", having two straight sides meeting at the top.

References

  1. ^ Brown, Lesley (2003)

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “A-frame”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1.