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Gable end   /gˈeɪbəl ɛnd/   Listen
Gable end

noun
1.
The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.  Synonyms: gable, gable wall.






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"Gable end" Quotes from Famous Books



... whitewashed. Its gabled end projects into the yard in the middle, with a door on the ground floor, and another in the loft above it without any balcony or ladder, but with a pulley rigged over it for hoisting sacks. Those who come from this central gable end into the yard have the gateway leading to the street on their left, with a stone horse-trough just beyond it, and, on the right, a penthouse shielding a table from the weather. There are forms at the table; and on them are seated a man and a woman, both much down on their luck, finishing a meal ...
— Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw

... with the kitchen. This lower door, which was wholly without the external charm usually seen even in the humblest dwellings in Touraine, was covered by a mansard story, reached by a stairway built on the outside of the house against the gable end and protected by a shed-roof. A little garden, full of marigolds, syringas, and elder-bushes, separated the house from the fields; and all around the courtyard were detached buildings which were used in the vintage season for the various processes ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac



Words linked to "Gable end" :   bell gable, corbie gable, gable wall, wall, pediment



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