gablet
Britishnoun
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"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Harry Potter and the Gablet of Fire" These are this week's films in the "Movies at the Mural" series.
From Seattle Times
They were always relied upon to add to the effectiveness of a building, and were enriched sometimes by variegated tiles or other covering, sometimes by the introduction of small windows, known as dormer windows, each with its own gablet and its little roof, and sometimes by the addition of a steep sided roof in the shape of a lantern or a “flèche” on the ridge, or a pyramidal covering to some projecting octagon or turret.
From Project Gutenberg
Finial.—A formally arranged bunch of foliage or other similar ornament forming the top of a pinnacle, gablet, or other ornamented feature of Gothic architecture.
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The swallows made a second long sweep, and as they neared the gablet again, hissed forth, "Singly were surer."
From Project Gutenberg
It lifted its gablet, carved to look like a canopy, till its apex was on a level with the book-board on the front of the organ-loft; and over—in fact upon this apex appeared the face of the man whom I have mentioned.
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