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Definition of Gabled
1. Adjective. (of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall. "A gabled roof"
Definition of Gabled
1. Adjective. Having one or more gables. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gabled
1. gable [v] - See also: gable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gabled
Literary usage of Gabled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Vignola by William Robert Ware, Vignola (1906)
"gabled Roofs.—gabled Roofs correspond in form to barrel and groined arches (Fig.
... Pyramidal gabled Roofs.—Plate IX.—The intersecting gables of a roof are ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... OK THE gabled HOUSETOPS OF NEMOURS NEMOURS: A TYPICAL FRENCH PROVINCIAL TOWN
BY ROGER BOUTET DE MONVEL WITH PICTURES BY BERNARD B. DE MONVEL IT is only ..."
3. Northern Germany, as Far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers: As Far as by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"B, C, 4, 5) form a single broad street intersecting the town from W. to E., flanked
with handsome gabled edifices of the ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"A beautiful illustration of a large, half-timbered, three-gabled building, bearing
the sign of the Jack Tar, is given on page 90, but it is now taken down. ..."
5. The Long White Mountan: Or, A Journey in Manchuria, with Some Account of the by Henry Evan Murchison James (1888)
"... coffins— Concrete flat roofs—gabled roofs—-Scene in a banker's parlour—A
disagreeable inn—-Convicts—An unpleasant custom—Soldiers drilling— A ..."
6. London Passed and Passing: A Pictorial Record of Destroyed & Threatened by Hanslip Fletcher (1908)
"... gabled HOUSES IN FETTER LANE T7"ERY few examples now survive in London of the
old timber-framed houses, with overhanging fronts and gables, ..."
7. Through Ten English Counties by James John Hissey (1894)
"... hampstead—The last day of a holiday—Chance acquaintances on the road—A puzzling
problem and a possible explanation— An ancient gabled house—The contrast ..."
8. Beauties of English landscape by Myles Birket Foster (1874)
"THAT cottage, with its walls so white, and gabled root so quaint; Oh ! was it
not a chosen thing for artist hands to paint ? ..."
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