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单词 gable
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Examples from literature
  • Above are the attics, which stretch the whole length of an enormously high pointed roof, with two gables and two large dormer windows on each side of it.
  • But for small gables on the buttresses, it is quite plain up to the level of the roof ridge.
  • Marks can also be seen, in the masonry, which indicate that the building once had three gables.
  • The house was an old one, the gables fronting the street.
  • Then we passed a village, the thatched cottages with their white gables rising prettily from the blossoming orchards.

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Elements such as roofs, gables and windows are likely to be dictated by the structure's primary function - providing shelter and light to the building's occupants.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In many residential designs, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, deck/patios, windows, doors, stairs or gables, are no more than standard architectural features.
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Seen from the village street it presents itself as a simplegableend surmounted by a chimney.
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There were loft conversions, several in 'pentices' (passages) between two houses with an entry below, and the addition of dormer windows in roofs and gables.
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The self-supporting lamella and lightweight weather-boarded gables demonstrate the structural principle more effectively than drawings or photographs.
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Thegableof the service wing dominates, marking the main gateway, the threshold to the privacy of the home.
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Dining facade on south elevation: condensed mirror image of west stack-andhorizontal-window andgable-withvertical-windowand-chimney motifs combines references to public and private aspects of marriage. 19e.
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The roof is a doublepitch in slate, with a chimney in eachgable.
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To the south, above the blank wall of the study and bedchamber, is agablewith a vertical window and tall, narrow chimney.
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The roof is low and either hipped,gable, or flat.
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These fed into horizontal wooden ducts within the roof construction, typically the top triangle of thegable.
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Very quickly, however, it turned into a uniform style with the double column, thegable, and the circular window as its trademarks.
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A concrete dam holds back the slate shale, and a curious image of a house is offered by the twisted timber-panelgablewalls that her carpenter brother will build.
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Low roof;gable, hipped, or flat *4.
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East and west are contained by walls, while the visiblegableof the main house to left gives little away.
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