gable
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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
Rather than catching fire from direct contact with flames, many homes begin to burn due to embers that can fly miles, entering through eaves or gable vents.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2025
Her “chief feline officer” orange tabby Serena enjoys a black gable roof catio connected by a 30-foot elevated tunnel to a wall cat door in her dining room.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 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
He went back to the gable and stood studying what he could see of the house beyond the corner of the barn.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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