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gablets
Triangular terminations to buttresses, much in use in the Early English and Decorated periods, after which the buttresses generally terminated in pinnacles. The Early English gablets are generally plain, and very sharp in pitch.

 


Gableted
a peaked gable often found at the top of a hip roof, sometimes louvred for ventilation.
Gypsum ...

gablet - a small gable, for example, over a dormer window.
garland - a curved hanging festoon of leaves or flowers. Frequently used in combination with the swag as an applied ornamental device.

Gablet - A small ornamental gable, as the vertical extension of a wall, or over a niche, buttress or some other feature.
Galvanising - Corrosion-resistant coating of zinc applied to steel (earlier, iron) sheet.


gablet - a gable-shaped stone that crowns a buttress.
Galilee porch - a porch at the western end of a church or cathedral; a biblical reference to Christ leading his disciples after the resurrection into Galilee.
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GABLET
Roof of a small gable dormer.
GATES
A moveable framework or solid structure especially one that swings on hinges, controlling entrance or exit through an opening in a fence or wall.

GABLEtriangular top portion of an end wall where there is a sloping roof
GABLED ROOFa roof that slopes on two sides
GALLERY - long porch across a facade ...

A gablet is a small gable used as a decorative feature. A gable springer is the same thing as a skew putt. The stone at the apex is usually referred to as the saddle stone.

Openwork gablet: Gable-shaped motif above portals and windows, often containing tracery decorations as well as pinnacles and finials.

In the Early English period the small buttresses frequently finished with gablets, and the more important with pinnacles supported with clustered shafts.

A hipped roof which turns to a gablet at the ridge.GarderobeA medieval privy; usually built into the thickness of an external wall.GargoyleProjecting water spout often carved into human or animal shape.Gauged brickwork ...

A. N → aguilón m, gablete m
B. CPD gable end N → hastial m
gable roof N → tejado m de dos aguas
gable [ˈgeɪbəl] n → pignon m ...

See also: Gable, Ornament, Crown, Pediment, Church