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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 124 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PENTHOUSE , a sloping roof attached to a See also:

building either to serve as a See also:porch or a covering for an See also:arcade, or, if supported by walls, as a See also:shed, a " lean-to." In the See also:history of siegecraft, the word is particularly applied to the fixed or movable constructions used to protect the besiegers when See also:mining, working battering-rams, catapults, &c., and is thus used to translate See also:Lat. vinea and gluteus, and also testudo, the shelter of locked See also:shields of the See also:Romans. The See also:Mid. Eng. See also:form of the word is pentis, an See also:adaptation of O. Fr. apentis, Med. Lat. appenditium or appendicium, a small structure attached to, or dependent on, another building, from appendere, to hang on to. The form " pent-See also:house " is due to a supposed connexion with " house " and Fr. pente, sloping roof. The more correct form " pentice " is now frequently used.

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