gambrel roof
noun
a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one.
gambrel-roofed
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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
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
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
Her house was a little way down the road, unpainted and gambrel-roofed, but so low that the old lilac-bushes which clustered round it were as tall as the eaves.
From Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett
