gable

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Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

The mural covers the gable end wall of a 19th Century Category C listed building overlooking the narrow School Wynd.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2023

That is where they built their current Colonial-style home with a gable roof and hardwood floors, three bedrooms and four full baths, according to local property records.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023

Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2022

At the top, she stands; she has the sense of a long slope-walled space pressed beneath the gable of the roof.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr