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Definition of Crowstep
1. n. See Corriestep.
Definition of Crowstep
1. Noun. (architecture) A stair-step type of design at the top of the triangular gable end of a building. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crowstep
1. a step on top of a wall [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowstep
Literary usage of Crowstep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... and seventeenth centuries than the "crowstep" — a simple device whereby the
long slopes of a high, narrow gable are broken into a stepped outline. ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... pulling down the venerable houses, with crowstep gables, which have stood
since the time of the Dutch rule, and erecting, instead, granite stores and ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"... with ancient mellow - tinted crowstep gables nodding above the grass - grown
footways, their weatherworn surfaces displaying many a quaint original ..."
4. Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time by Daniel Wilson (1891)
"The same device, possibly only a merchant's mark, was repeated above on the lowest
crowstep. 1 Ante, vol. ii. p. 30. ..."
5. A Landmark History of New York: Also the Origin of Street Names and a by Albert Ulmann (1901)
"... the shore before you, and here, on this side, a straggling row of quaint Dutch
houses with their gable ends toward the road, topped with crowstep roofs. ..."
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