Definitionn. a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper
Last update: October 20, 2015
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Many of the finest old houses are of the gambrel type; and there are many beautiful doorways, doorheads and other details. [Please select]
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I swam the river and towed the buck across with a beech withe in his gambrel joints. [Please select]
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The two gambrel-roofed Thompson and Adams houses were built as close together as if the little village of Bridgewater were a city. [Please select]
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Abiel Holmes, a Yale graduate, was the minister of the First Church in Cambridge, and it was in its "gambrel-roofed" parsonage that Oliver Wendell was born in 1809. [Please select]
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CANBY The sun was just rising and showering his first rays on the gambrel-roof and solid stone walls of a house surrounded by a magnificent grove of walnuts, and overlooking one of the beautiful valleys so common in southeastern Pennsylvania. [Please select]
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Still the peaceful meeting-house and the gambrel-roofed home stand unchanged, save that their time-beaten timbers and crumbling bricks have taken on a more sombre tinge, and under the broad walnut-tree another little Betty sits and sews. [Please select]
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