gable roof
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Farmhouse with gable roof
Noun
gable roof (plural gable roofs)
- (roofing) A single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends.
- 2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, Sterling, →ISBN, pages 205–:
- A gable roof is the basic design for residential roof construction. It can be made with trusses or traditional rafters. Even though building a gable roof is a lot of work, its design is the essence of simplicity: Two flat planes are joined together to form a simple peaked structure.
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single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends
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