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gable roof

NOUN
double sloping roof
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Chicken barns have massive fans at each end of the gable roof.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

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

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2022

Spare logs were used to fill in its gable roof and replace others that were rotted or damaged.

From Washington Times • Jun. 17, 2018

Nearly two centuries later, the simple white country house that he named Sandycombe Lodge, a narrow two-story edifice with a gable roof and one-story wings, has fallen into disrepair.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2016

Straight ahead, about thirty paces away, rose the gable roof of an ancient one-story structure, which also bordered on the park wall and seemed to open in front on the yard.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann




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