Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Dutch gable
A gable, each side of which is multicarved and surmounted by a pediment ...
Dutch gable: a gable with curved sides, convex, concave or both, usually with a small pediment at the top.
echelon, echelon apse: apse flanked by chapels placed in a stepped or ladder-wise manner.
Types include: Dutch gable, with curved sides crowned by a pediment (also called a Flemish gable); kneelered gable, with sides rising from projecting stones (kneelers); pedimental gable, with classical mouldings along the top; ...
Renaissance architecture arrived in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, having first spread through the Low countries where among other features it acquired versions of the Dutch gable, ...
Can also be elaborate, Dutch gable is a term used to describe any gable which is curved although it properly refers to a gable which has curved sides and a carved pediment at the top.
 See also: Gable, Pediment, Brick, Mortar, Arches
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