What is "gabled"

Usage examples of "gabled".

The most horrid clodhopper neighbors abounded all about his cupulated, balustraded, gabled, turreted house.

Mab turned to Timmer as they approached the gabled house at the end of Renegade Road.

Her boredom subsided in the early afternoon when they rolled into the town of Gram mantes, with its intact medieval city wall, its cobbled streets, quaintly gabled and timbered houses, and its ancient guild halls of rose-flecked Fabequais granite.

Stepping ahead of them down a short hall, Ramonda entered a tiny room tucked beneath the gabled roof of the inn and set a candle on the table.

Hotel Slovan, a small, decrepit, gabled house, its portal withdrawn under the arcade of the square.

Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, And four lives paid for what the seven had won.

They reached the Markt and turned past the Stadhuis into the Koommarkt, where they came to a halt to admire two lovely gabled houses on either side of the street.

Kathryn, Tap and I were living in an old gabled house in the Champlain Islands, a place her father had owned, and we liked it there, among farms and apple orchards, a lake culture lying between the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks.

Note, as we stroll past the backs of Christ Church, the studied calm of Corpus Christi, the soft golden glow of Merton, that we are immersed in an architectural treasure house, one of the densest assemblages of historic buildings in the world, and that Merton Street presents us with an unquestionably becoming prospect of gabled buildings, elaborate wrought-iron gates and fine seventeenth and eighteenth-century townhouses.

Trilda, a stone and timber cottage at the back of a flower garden, was notable for its six dormers in a high gabled roof: two to each of the upstairs front bedrooms.

The early evening was cool, with the French windows of the old house closed against the rolling woodlands of the Upper Rhine, in the crooked gabled town of Illhausern, a few miles from the German border.

The silver magician pointed downward toward a gabled structure built onto the very crest of the highest peak in the range.

The main house, quaintly gabled and painted Wedgwood-blue with white trim, stood on a landscaped knoll high above the other buildings like a small castle on its motte.

It had a distinctive Victorian style, with two high gabled roofs in the front, a turret that ran up four levels, and wide covered porches that swept around the house on both sides.

Ada did not bring up conversational absurdities such as books or spaceships, but spent the late morning with him, serving as guide, reacquainting him with Ardis Hall’s many wings and gabled corridors, its elaborate wine cellars and secret passages and ancient attics.