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

Her mother picked a piece of cement from the gable wall, blessed it and put it on her daughter's ear.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025

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

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2022

You can get motorized lifts with large articulating arms that allow you to safely paint that tall gable end on your home or reach a difficult sidewall above a steep roof.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 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