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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

Her mother picked a piece of cement from the gable wall, blessed it and put it on her daughter's ear.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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

Before I follow, I stop at the gable end of a bombed-out block to wait for my little brother.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

These furry creatures are a familiar sight, known to roost in chimneys and in the gables of old churches.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2023

The firm’s towers almost never had flat tops; instead, they had pyramids or domes or lanterns or gables or, sometimes, a combination of them all.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments - the all-marble building’s gables.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2022

Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments — the all-marble building’s gables.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Voussoirs were carved to form the arched gables over each of the three front doors and a tympanum — a semicircular sculptured panel — was carved to go above each of the doors.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay