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US
/ˈɡæmbɹəɫ/
]
NOUN
- a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper
How To Use gambrel In A Sentence
- The home is two stories with a gambrel (barn-style) roof and a covered porch we enjoy year-round.
- The Warner House, a three-story building with gambrel roof and luthern windows, is as fine and substantial an exponent of the architecture of the period as you are likely to meet with anywhere in New England. An Old Town By the Sea
- A glance upward through the ceiling area reveals the huge cross timbers, and the complex joinery of the gambrel roof system.
- ‘I grew up in a home like this,’ she reminisced as she drove by a brick house with a gambrel rooftop.
- Though homes with gambrel roofs are popularly called Dutch Colonial, there is debate over the origins of the roof style.
- Free Decorator Eric Piasecki WELL-POLISHED: Classicist Stephen Gambrel's shiny bottle-green walls hold court without hogging the conversation. Shine On, Glossy Walls
- His five-bay building, with its glazed header Flemish bond brick facade had a gambrel roof typical of local vernacular architecture.
- This one has a gambrel roof, wide shed roof dormers, and a shed roof over the porch.
- Heel is exorbitant, walk flabby, easy sprain gambrel, cause sufficient painful, lumbago.
- Besides its unique appearance a gambrel roof also serves to maximize the usable floor space in the attic.