eave
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thumb|upright|Eaves overhang, shown here with a bracket system of modillions
The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural style, such as the Chinese dougong bracket systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “eave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.