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gable roof

noun

  1. 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

  • gable-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.

The soil is usually hard and dry, and the water runs off as though from a gable roof.

The knoll which Bertha and Sire had descended made a grade like the pitch of an old gable roof.

The Meyer home was altered soon afterwards, a gable roof and additional windows being added.

At last it alighted on a lofty gable-roof, on whose ridge was its firmly-fastened nest.

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