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
It is thought that the carvings which came from Holy Trinity include a flower and two gable ends.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 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
You can get motorized lifts with large articulating arms that allow you to safely paint that tall gable end on your home or reach a difficult sidewall above a steep roof.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
I was checking out the brass eagle weather vane on top when something caught my eye, a shadow in the uppermost window of the attic gable.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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