gambrel roof
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The owner of a longtime Summerland antiques barn had died, and the "historically delightful" 1921 structure — complete with gambrel roof and grounds with potential — was available.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
River view, sitting porch with four Ionic columns, gambrel roof, two chimneys.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2016
It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its sides—clad in weather-beaten shingles and inset with a series of large windows—slanted obliquely inward, rising toward a gambrel roof.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
It came up into a kindly gambrel roof and there were dormers.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
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