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gabled

/gey-buhld/US // ˈgeɪ bəld //

坡屋顶,坡顶,屋顶的,阁楼式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : provided with a gable or gables: a gabled house.
    • : built with a gable or gables.

Examples

  • Originally, there was a huge gabled attic bedroom that required ascending a steep stairway.

  • As English houses go, this gabled red brick Victorian is neither especially beautiful nor significant.

  • The road led to an old fashioned, high gabled farm-house at the foot of the hill; the only tenement visible from that lonely spot.

  • In Devonshire, particularly among the farmers and poorer classes, the ridged coffin is very general, the end being gabled.

  • A gabled shingled roof was commonly used; wherever they could be afforded, dormer windows were added.

  • It has one complete story topped by a steep gabled roof with dormers and with two T-shaped chimneys.

  • Adjacent to the church is St Peter's hospital, a picturesque gabled building of Jacobean and earlier date, with a fine court room.