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gabled

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Ga·ble  (gbl), (William) Clark 1901-1960.
American actor who received an Academy Award for his performance in It Happened One Night (1934).
ga·ble  (gbl)
n.
1.
a. The generally triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roof, occupying the space between the two slopes of the roof.
b. The whole end wall of a building or wing having a pitched roof.
2. A triangular, usually ornamental architectural section, as one above an arched door or window.
[Middle English gable, gavel, from Norman French gable (perhaps of Celtic origin) and from Old Norse gafl; see ghebh-el- in Indo-European roots.]
gabled adj.
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Adj.1.gabled - (of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall; "a gabled roof"
hipped - (of a roof) sloping on all sides; "a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables"


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The gabled brick, tile, and freestone houses had almost dried off for the season their integument of lichen, the streams in the meadows were low, and in the sloping High Street, from the West Gateway to the mediaeval cross, and from the mediaeval cross to the bridge, that leisurely dusting and sweeping was in progress which usually ushers in an old-fashioned market-day.
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At length I perceived from afar a gabled house that was built of yellow wood.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The river and its tiny craft, the little gabled houses of the neighbourhood, with a garden or two dropped in, tell delightfully in the general effect.
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