gable window

American  

noun

1. a window in or under a gable.

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gable window British  

noun

1. a window positioned in a gable or having a small gable over it

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Other Word Forms

• gable-windowed adjective

Etymology

Origin of gable window

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

Example Sentences

By contrast, the "big room" at Bear Creek feels like a cathedral, with its struts and open roof beams, wood-framed windows, Oriental rug and 30-foot-high gable window funneling soft streams of light.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2013

He walked down to the end of the loft and looked out the high gable window at the country below, the pieced land dead and gray, the fence, the road.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

It was near midnight when he returned to Kvaerk, where Aasa sat in her high gable window, still humming the weird melody of the old ballad.

From Tales from Two Hemispheres by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

To accomplish this purpose, he armed himself with plenty of dried squashes, which he kept in the garret of his fathers house, near to the gable window, that fronted on the street.

From A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren by Charless, Charlotte Taylor Blow

As near as possible to the gable window stood a monster structure the nature of which the beholders did not instantly recognize.

From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances