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Definition of Gablet
1. n. A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
Definition of Gablet
1. Noun. (architecture) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gablet
1. a small gable [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gablet
Literary usage of Gablet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"gablet.—From a buttress of York Minster, England. ... gablet tt take the place
of the ornate pinnacles. The American, XII. [103. gab-lever (gab'lev'er), n. ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1850)
"The Church of San Miniato, without the walls of Florence, nas precisely this
arrangement, except that the gablet occurs over every third pier only; ..."
3. Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture in South-West Surrey, and Notes on the by Ralph Nevill (1889)
"This, of course, caused the little gablet which certainly gives spirit to ...
The artful manner in which a gablet is formed to the lean-to at Cranleigh is ..."
4. Charters of the Abbey of Crosraguel by Crosraguel Abbey (1886)
"The gablet is ogee in shape, enclosing a circle with quatrefoil and carved ...
Each gablet has enclosed a quatrefoil in a circle, and surmounts a cusped ..."
5. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"gablet. Rising against the screen . . . stood an old monument of carved wood,
... It lifted its gablet, carved to look like a canopy, till its apex was on a ..."
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