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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

Maine's Aroostook County, dotted with neat white farmhouses and big gambrel-roofed barns, is the most northeasterly county in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is an old-fashioned gambrel-roofed house, standing close to the scene of the Fight on the banks of the river.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell