gambrel roof
a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one.: Compare mansard (def. 1).
Origin of gambrel roof
1Other words from gambrel roof
- gambrel-roofed, adjective
Words Nearby gambrel roof
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How to use gambrel roof in a sentence
Two large windows, one in each end of the gambrel roof, afforded light and air.
Peggy Owen at Yorktown | Lucy Foster MadisonThe gambrel roof appeared before the eighteenth century and was commonly used in New England farmhouses.
Remodeled Farmhouses | Mary H. NorthendThe next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof.
Home Life in Colonial Days | Alice Morse EarleThe gambrel roof had a certain grace of outline, especially when joined with lean-tos and other additions.
Home Life in Colonial Days | Alice Morse EarleIt was quite an old frame-building, two stories high, with a gambrel roof and tall chimneys.
Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home | Bayard Taylor
British Dictionary definitions for gambrel roof
mainly British a hipped roof having a small gable at both ends
mainly US and Canadian a roof having two slopes on both sides, the lower slopes being steeper than the upper: Compare mansard (def. 1)
- Sometimes shortened to: gambrel
Derived forms of gambrel roof
- gambrel-roofed, adjective
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