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Synonyms for gambrel roof


Grammar : Noun



Définition of gambrel roof

  • As in pitched roof : noun angled rooftop
Example sentences :
  • It has a gambrel roof, and is on the left when the train is going westward.
  • Extract from : « Whittier-land » by Samuel T. Pickard
  • It is a low building, with a gambrel roof and a huge chimney.
  • Extract from : « Not Pretty, But Precious » by John Hay, et al.
  • The building itself is a stern, dignified, two-story house with a gambrel roof.
  • Extract from : « Historic Homes » by Mary H. Northend
  • The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows.
  • Extract from : « The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 » by Various
  • It is a square wooden edifice, with gambrel roof and deep-set window-frames.
  • Extract from : « The Story of a Bad Boy » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The house, a two-story wooden building with a gambrel roof, is still standing .
  • Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • Later came the more pretentious hall, typical of the gambrel roof house, that enjoyed so long a period of popularity.
  • Extract from : « Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings » by Mary H. Northend
  • Two large windows, one in each end of the gambrel roof, afforded light and air.
  • Extract from : « Peggy Owen at Yorktown » by Lucy Foster Madison
  • The gambrel roof appeared before the eighteenth century and was commonly used in New England farmhouses.
  • Extract from : « Remodeled Farmhouses » by Mary H. Northend
  • The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof.
  • Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle

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