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n. (plural of gambrel roof English)
Usage examples of "gambrel roofs".
At the Essex Institute, which was well known to him from former sojourns in the glamorous old town of crumbling Puritan gables and clustered gambrel roofs, he was very kindly received, and unearthed there a considerable amount of Curwen data.
Across a covered bridge one sees a small village huddled between the stream and the vertical slope of Round Mountain, and wonders at the cluster of rotting gambrel roofs bespeaking an earlier architectural period than that of the neighbouring region.
About me in my exhaustion I could see only strange walls and windows and old gambrel roofs.
The vast huddle of sagging gambrel roofs and peaked gables conveyed with offensive clearness the idea of wormy decay, and as we approached along the now descending road I could see that many roofs had wholly caved in.
Then he went back to Arkham, the terrible witch-haunted old town of his forefathers in New England, and had experiences in the dark, amidst the hoary willows and tottering gambrel roofs, which made him seal forever certain pages in the diary of a wild-minded ancestor.
The thick, stumpy towers of a fortress glowered above an assortment of crumbling gambrel roofs and gargoyle gutters, like an ogre's frowning brow.
The crumbling slate slabs, the patriarchal trees, and the centuries gambrel roofs of the witch-haunted old town that stretched around, all combined to rouse my spirit in defense of my work.
In the east, it was the shade of old wine, while to the west the sun was sinking in bloody defeat behind a black tangle of gambrel roofs, aerials and chimney pots.