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gable

[gey-buhl] / ˈgeɪ bəl /


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Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

The gable end of a Co-op store at Denny near Falkirk collapsed but there were no reports of injuries.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025

The entrance hall had its own gable tile roof.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2023

Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2022

The porch furniture looks like my lounging chair, and the trim on the gable is a weaving of gnarled oaks and maple branches.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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