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View synonyms for gable roof
gable roof
noun
- a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
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Other Words From
- gable-roofed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gable roof1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
They nested in their old corner under the eaves of Caspar's gable-roof.
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The soil is usually hard and dry, and the water runs off as though from a gable roof.
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The knoll which Bertha and Sire had descended made a grade like the pitch of an old gable roof.
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The Meyer home was altered soon afterwards, a gable roof and additional windows being added.
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At last it alighted on a lofty gable-roof, on whose ridge was its firmly-fastened nest.
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