gable roof

American  

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 Word Forms

• gable-roofed adjective

Etymology

Origin of gable roof

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Chicken barns have massive fans at each end of the gable roof.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2022

It was styled to match the owner’s house with a flying gable roof.

From Washington Times • Sep. 9, 2017

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

An inner rectangle is run parallel to the edges of the book, and the upper and lower lines are broken outwards into the outline of a gable roof.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various