(n.) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.
(n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.
(n.) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.
Example Sentences:
(1) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
(2) The Lounge was a speakeasy in the 1920s and hosted Humphrey Bogart, Carol Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Clark Gable.
(3) There are two estates on the edges of Lancaster up the road; one of pebbledash housing called Ryeland, tagged by the local gang with the number 902, and at the entrance to another, Marsh Estate, the number 808 graffiti sprayed on a gable end tells you whose territory you are entering.
(4) In 1987 she had returned to the ballet to create the role of Lowry's mother in Gillian Lynne's A Simple Man, made for BBC television to mark the centenary of the artist (played by Christopher Gable), which subsequently entered the repertory of Northern Ballet Theatre.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio and Donald Trump at a debate on the campus of the University of Miami on 10 March 2016 in Coral Gables, Florida.
(6) Sexual frisson I mainly used my local library, before I reached my teenage years, to read through every single book in the Anne of Green Gables, What Katy Did, Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and Chalet School series.
(7) The technique of 'initial strain' is introduced so as to analyze the effects of a gable bend and activation on the force system which is delivered by the orthodontic appliance.
(8) This restaurant was built in 1902, and Carole Lombard and Clark Gable honeymooned in the hotel upstairs.
(9) The bed had a red padded headboard and a creepy picture of Clark Gable on the wall.
(10) (But let's not be precious: the author has a very acute ear for that self-regarding, caustic showbizzery, and the chimp is full of apercus such as: "She was an absolute brick, though, Sylvia, and I just didn't see in her that bloodcurdlingly shallow and avaricious gold-digger everybody tells you she became after Doug's death, when she was briefly and lucratively married to Gable."
(11) Residential Derry is not as terrifyingly Balkanised as Belfast, with its 40-plus "peace lines", and there are considerably fewer gable-end murals than in the capital (though what there are serve as tourist draws).
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marco Rubio shakes hands former Florida Governor Jeb Bush as he celebrates victory in his Senate race at a rally in Coral Gables, Florida, in November 2010.
(13) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
(14) Last night the royals were heading back to anglophone Canada – to Prince Edward Island, land of one of the duchess's favourite books, Anne of Green Gables – and the prince's spokesman could afford to be condescending towards the demonstrators: "The couple are taking it in their stride.
(15) The original said that Drigg was in the shadow of Great Gable.
(16) Camilla's modest scene in the latest episode of the BBC's longest-running soap opera, recorded weeks ago at Clarence House, involved nothing more taxing than her supposedly visiting Ambridge's Grey Gables hotel, discussing her charity, the Osteoporosis Society, sampling the shortbread of the chef, Ian Craig, and engaging in a little gentle banter: "So, you're the genius with the shortbread?
(17) This can be overcome by the placement of gable bends or angulation in a vertical loop or retraction spring.
(18) Seeing the sophistication of these ruins – the trapezoid doorway that opened on to the plaza, the gabled kallanka halls for ceremony and meeting, the stairways and irrigation channels – I was struck by the question that has long haunted Peruvian history: how did a band of thugs and chancers from the illiterate plains of Estremadura, stranded thousands of miles beyond their supply lines and lost in a mountain terrain unlike anything they’d ever seen, bring down an empire of such reach and confidence?
(19) Because of the low load-deflection rate, moment-to-force ratios are relatively more constant if a gable bend (angulation) is placed.
(20) Moraga Vineyard, Los Angeles This 16-acre estate in the Moraga Canyon in upscale Bel Air, California, once played host to Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh and Spencer Tracy.
Pediment
Definition:
(n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.
Example Sentences:
(1) This earned Johnson a Time magazine cover story and unprecedented international attention, essentially because of one clever and incidental gesture, the broken pediment that tops the building.
(2) It clings to the flank of its sandstone church, whose brace of tall, pencil-straight towers are linked by an elegant classical pediment.
(3) (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.)
(4) In the middle of Place Charles de Gaulle, a vast tricolour flapped below a list of Napoleon's victories on the Aarch's pediment.
(5) These are "stone hedge" entrances of old row houses that have beautifully carved pediments with European or Chinese motifs.