Meanings
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noun
the usually triangular upper part of an exterior wall between the sloping sides of a roof
The farmhouse presented its blank gable end to the road.
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Etymology
From Middle English gable, probably through Old French from Old Norse gafl ("gable end"). Cognates survive in several Scandinavian languages. The term names the end wall enclosed by the two slopes of a pitched roof, not the whole roof itself.