gable-shaped

The fronts, gable-shaped, have their enormous beams richly carved, and supported by brackets and statues of St. Yves or other favourite saints; some are overlaid with lozenge-shaped slates, and finished at the point with a leaden "épi," or ornamental terminal.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

At its eastern side is a jacal, a gable-shaped straw-roof resting on four poles, the narrow sides standing east and west.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

In the middle of the nave, nearer the main door than the altar, is a deal coffin with gable-shaped lid, barely covered by a pall.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

Characteristic of it is the general tendency to use vast blocks of stone for the jambs and lintels of doors, for instance, and in the construction of gable-shaped passages; two rows of such stones being made to rest against each other at an acute angle, within the thickness of the walls.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

-- A boat's sail is turned into a tent by erecting a gable-shaped framework: the mast or other spar being the ridge-pole, and

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

To keep the tent erect -- a small gable-shaped affair, six feet high, and seven by six square, made of American sheeting, and so light that with poles and everything complete it barely weighs one man's load -- I called up the men, and for hours held it so by strength of arm.

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845