Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In architecture, having a gable-roof.

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Examples

  • All that remained was for him to take the process to its logical conclusion: to let new technologies determine their own novel forms rather than using them to make traditional forms like the gable-roofed cottages that Stockade built.

    How to Build A Reputation Michael J. Lewis 2009

  • The carved-deodar windows and doors of the gable-roofed row houses on each side of the alley are shut.

    ‘It Is Never Over, Never Escaped’ 2009

  • This structure is bookended by two gable-roofed pavilions, 65 feet high at their peaks.

    What Merce Cunningham Assembled at an Old Ford Plant 2008

  • The exhibit sets the stage with a huge woodblock depicting the interior of Nakamuro Theater in Edo, showing its distinctive, gable-roofed stage.

    PERISCOPE 2007

  • Just as the brick towers of New York and Chicago once symbolized America's aspirations to overtake the gable-roofed countinghouses of Europe, today's glass and metal obelisks make a similar assertion about China and its East Asian neighbors -- like Malaysia, which put its capital of Kuala Lumpur on the business map with the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers.

    High Time 2007

  • Already, scores of houses had been destroyed, and the fire was now lapping at the back of one of those pseudo-classic, porthole-windowed, arched-doorwayed, cathedral-ceilinged, gable-roofed pink stucco homes that line the lushly treed cul-de-sacs in such high-price developments.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • Already, scores of houses had been destroyed, and the fire was now lapping at the back of one of those pseudo-classic, porthole-windowed, arched-doorwayed, cathedral-ceilinged, gable-roofed pink stucco homes that line the lushly treed cul-de-sacs in such high-price developments.

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • There was so much, after the torpor of Florida, to excite his mind: the bustle of a town under construction; gable-roofed cottages, shops, and stables taking shape under the whine of sawmill blades and the percussion of hammer on nail.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • There was so much, after the torpor of Florida, to excite his mind: the bustle of a town under construction; gable-roofed cottages, shops, and stables taking shape under the whine of sawmill blades and the percussion of hammer on nail.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He conjured a tall, gable-roofed house, a pristine third-floor classroom, school desks set in tidy, earnest rows.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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