gable

/gey-buhl/US // ˈgeɪ bəl //UK // (ˈɡeɪbəl) //

山顶,屋檐,屋檐下,山寨

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n.名词 noun

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Architecture.
- : the portion of the front or side of a building enclosed by or masking the end of a pitched roof.
- : a decorative member suggesting a gable, used especially in Gothic architecture.
- : Also called gable wall . a wall bearing a gable.

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The trouble with Gable was that he was under contract to MGM.
Clark Gable and Robert Taylor and Tyrone Power could make women sigh.
One of her courtiers bet that Clark Gable as Rhett Butler would be her ideal, “a privateer, a romantic, and a fabulous cad.”
Led by Clark Gable, the men aboard rise up and take back the ship.
He is like you would imagine a young hipster Clark Gable would be and he's got a leer on him that won't quit.
Tim's letter was in my pocket and the sun was still high over the gable of the mill.
The wall finishes in a gable and the whole west wall is a true termination of the nave which lies behind.
And yet you appreciate so keenly my old enamels, and your eye seeks out, in a minute, a picturesque roof or gable.
In a few minutes, the gable end where the chimney was built, in its turn, sank into the abyss.
The regular form of the buildings was rectangular, the gable sides probably being shorter than the others.