crow-stepped

A sprawling, maze-like compound which mixed old architecture with new, crow-stepped gables and turrets with boxy modernity.

Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004

The harled walls, steep tiled roofs and crow-stepped gables were all trademarks of the local vernacular architecture, and the houses were individual enough to blend innocuously with their surroundings.

The Distant Echo McDermid, Val 2003

Wander where you will in the ancient streets of Bruges, and you will not fail to discover everywhere some delightful relic of antiquity, or to stumble at every street corner on some new and charming combination of old houses, with their characteristic crow-stepped, or corbie, gables.

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

The transepts (or north and south chapels) and the south porch have crow-stepped gables both on their outer walls and also over the inner or aisle wall which separates them from the church.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

It was built at the foot of the hill in the usual irregular manner and in one continuous crooked street, with many of the houses with their crow-stepped gables built as it were over the sea itself, and here in one of these, owing to a high recommendation received inland, we stayed the night.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Coming straight from England by way of Calais and Dunkirk, the first sight of this ancient Flemish market-place, with its unbroken lines of old white-brick houses, many of which have crow-stepped gables; with the two great churches of St. Nicholas, with its huge square tower, and of St. Walburge, with its long ridge of lofty roof; and with its Hotel de Ville and

Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

European houses of white stone nestle among palm and tamarind, the broad seats flanking the central door, and the bulging balconies of old Dutch style recalling the 16th century dwellings on the canal banks of distant Holland, but the crow-stepped gable here gives place to the flat roof.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

A fairly steep roof, crow-stepped gables, rough-cast walls, and rather small windows seemed to my untutored eye to be the chief features of the whole stone gathering.

The Man from the Clouds 1907

The inhabitants built fine houses with crow-stepped gables and sculptured façades and collected in them exotic treasures, furniture, plate and china.

The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

Raincy property, with crow-stepped gables and beflowered verandahs.

Patsy 1887