gable window

American  

noun

1. a window in or under a gable.

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gable window British  

noun

1. a window positioned in a gable or having a small gable over it

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Other Word Forms

• gable-windowed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of gable window

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

Example Sentences

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gable window

By contrast, the "big room" at Bear Creek feels like a cathedral, with its struts and open roof beams, wood-framed windows, Oriental rug and 30-foot-high gable window funneling soft streams of light.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2013

He walked down to the end of the loft and looked out the high gable window at the country below, the pieced land dead and gray, the fence, the road.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Cut off from human sympathy, she used to sit at the gable window of the cabin and look out over the boundless meadow until it seemed to her that she would lose her reason.

From Duffels by Eggleston, Edward

Butler rose silently from his bed, dressed himself, and, putting his shoes into his pockets, stole in his stockinged feet to the little gable window at the further end of his apartment.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

There was a substantial house, with four large rooms below, besides an L kitchen, and above, two sunny chambers, each with a dormer and a gable window.

From Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" by Chaplin, Heman White