gambrel-roofed
- a word derived from gambrel roof.
Example Sentences
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And Abraham Peyton Skipwith built a gambrel-roofed cottage on Duval Street along the northern edge of town.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022
Wheelwright bolted with his wife, Eliza, for their little gambrel-roofed house on 200 acres.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
The T-shaped, gambrel-roofed house has classic Georgian symmetry, proportions and detail; it is stately, yet beckons amiably from a gentle slope overlooking the Piankatank River.
From Washington Post
There were no writers in Cornish, N.H., and no plumbing or furnace in the gambrel-roofed cottage Salinger bought on a 90-acre hillside tract overlooking the Connecticut River.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drawing-room was eight-sided, and would have held, with some margin, the gambrel-roofed house, chimneys and all, in which I had spent my life.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
