gable roof
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of gable roof
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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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
Spare logs were used to fill in its gable roof and replace others that were rotted or damaged.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2018
Nearly two centuries later, the simple white country house that he named Sandycombe Lodge, a narrow two-story edifice with a gable roof and one-story wings, has fallen into disrepair.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2016
These buildings may have resembled the crude St. Augustine mission of 1566, the earliest Spanish church in this country, which was constructed of vertical plank walls and with a gable roof.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee
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