A gabled roof. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a gabled house. From Dictionary.com.
Newnham stood a many-gabled, substantial farmhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The old gabled house was in the dire throes of packing. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
A group of low-gabled buildings surrounded an open court. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
That big gabled affair with the mansard roof on Franklin Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [THE GIFT] Reference
All round the cathedral are the finest old gabled houses I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
In that shadowed, gabled room were the noises of many sunk in slumber. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Below: the river, other houses, the tall trees scraping the gabled roof. From Wordnik.com. [Me, Watching] Reference
The cluster chimney is a unique feature of its architecture, as is the gabled end. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Between the pinnacles of these buttresses rose the gabled ends of each of the chapels. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
A series of fine gabled buttresses gives relief to the exterior of the choir on each side. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Part of the tower, that to the west, has a battlement, while the rest has a low gabled roof. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
= The Deanery =, a stone house with two gabled wings, stands opposite to the north transept. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Knees and hands steady again, he investigated the finished portion of the gabled story swiftly. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Next, we're with Tareq and Michaele Salahi at a many-gabled mini-mansion in the country somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Whose house is THAT?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#2, Aug. 12)] Reference
The shadows of the old gabled and balconied houses are thrown sharply on the reddish-yellow water. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891] Reference
The roofs are, some of them, gabled; others, slanting backwards, give room for picturesque dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
Two gabled windows, back and front, made with the centre line of the low-sloping ceiling a Greek cross effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
She had to fight every inch in the teeth of the wind and reached the gabled house thoroughly chilled and spent. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Another door in the section behind the staircase leading to the gabled second story next claimed his attention. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
If the intruder was still in the house he could be nowhere but in that unfinished half of the gabled top story. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Nita Selim coaxed Judge Marshall to have the unfinished half of the gabled attic turned into bedrooms and baths?. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Through the mighty gaps in the gabled roofs of the houses of the narrow street on which we enter shines the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Caen stone, and contains a representation of the Last Supper in rather high relief, within a three-gabled canopy. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
A squat, snug house, the eaves of whose steep gabled roof came down well over its two stories, like the snuffer on a candle. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The former, a substantial old gabled building, standing in a large old-fashioned garden, probably dates back some 300 years. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The picturesque western front of the castle is gabled and embattled, and a very high archway is built in the centre of the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Coming at last to the old-fashioned gabled house, where she had gone when site was a child, set in among stiff rows of evergreens. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
It was quite dark but the street lamps were lit and the cheer of gas and firelight streamed out from the old gabled house invitingly. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Its high façade is divided in three parts and gabled, and it has three rows of half Roman and half Gothic arches supported on columns. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Deanery, opposite the west door, is a quaintly charming building and the gabled King's House is said to date from the fourteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
We had recently moved from the big gabled house up on Prospect Drive, and I was having difficulty adjusting to our change of circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [Me, Watching] Reference
But he didn't quite finish even that -- left half the gabled top story unfinished, and Nita has been teasing Hugo to finish it up for her. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Outside the view is picture-book perfect: fields of deepest green scattered with high-gabled farmhouses against a backdrop of alpine peaks. From Wordnik.com. [Taking It Slow] Reference
The market-place was broken and diversified in its outlines; one or two of the streets turning out of it looked quite gabled and mediæval. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891] Reference
Frank had been fortunate enough to sell his pretty cottage, but the old-fashioned gabled house with its wistaria vines and terraced lawns, was not so easy to dispose of. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
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