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, which was created by artist collective Peaball, is located on a gable wall of the Pram Centre.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
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
The workbench took up a whole gable wall of the barn.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
These furry creatures are a familiar sight, known to roost in chimneys and in the gables of old churches.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2023
Some are simple, but others have brightly painted roofs, gables and even chimneys.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments - the all-marble building’s gables.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
Hohnen bought the Milwood Avenue property for $1.95 million in 2014 and quickly took the homes down to framing, then rebuilt with replicated gables and rooflines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
The Calliope Inn that loomed up on her right like a haunted house, all eaves and gables, was very much not her home.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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