gable roof
Americannoun
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Origin of gable roof
First recorded in 1840–50
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Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2022
Composite libraries are available with a composite arched or slanted roof, while wood libraries generally have a slanted metal shed roof or gable roof.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 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
All of the buildings, with the exception of the ranchhouse, which was constructed of logs, with a gable roof and plastered interstices–were built of adobe, low, squat structures with flat roofs.
From The Coming of the Law by Charles Alden Seltzer
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