Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, having a gable-roof.
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Examples
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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
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The carved-deodar windows and doors of the gable-roofed row houses on each side of the alley are shut.
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This structure is bookended by two gable-roofed pavilions, 65 feet high at their peaks.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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