gambrel roof
Example Sentences
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The owner of a longtime Summerland antiques barn had died, and the "historically delightful" 1921 structure — complete with gambrel roof and grounds with potential — was available.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2018
River view, sitting porch with four Ionic columns, gambrel roof, two chimneys.
From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2016
It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its sides—clad in weather-beaten shingles and inset with a series of large windows—slanted obliquely inward, rising toward a gambrel roof.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The Stavers inn has the regulation gambrel roof, but is lacking in those wood ornaments which are usually seen over the doors and windows of the more prominent houses of that epoch.
From An Old Town By the Sea by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
