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2. A triangular, usually ornamental architectural section, as one above an arched door or windowa. The generally triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roof, occupying the space between the two slopes of the roof.
b. The whole end wall of a building or wing having a pitched roof.
The river and its tiny craft, the little gabled houses of the neighbourhood, with a garden or two dropped in, tell delightfully in the general effect.The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio
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