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gable end

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gable end
gable end
A wall of a building having a gable at its end; a gable wall; also called a gable-end wall.
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The floor was sunk about six feet below the surface of the ground, with a low door at the gable end, extremely narrow, and partly sunk.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
But when the rising sun began to gild the coping stones at the gable ends of the houses, Cornelius, eager to know whether there was any living creature about him, approached the window, and cast a sad look round the circular yard before him
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
 
 
 
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