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Перевод: gable

[существительное]
фронтон ; щипец [архит.] ; конек крыши

Тезаурус:

1. From the gable of the south-west elevation projects a boarded "lucarne", or sack hoist enclosure, a feature which is characteristic of many older flour mills.
2. Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Adolph Menjou - these are not the kind of men to serve as archetypes for celibate priests.
3. Fortunately, the church was in very sound structural order - only one small area of dry rot was found in the course of the conversion - and restoration work was confined to the replacement of several crumbling gable coping stones and related "kneelers", together with wire-brushing of some small areas of stonework where this was necessary.
4. It seemed sensible to reserve each end bay of the roof space for a bedroom, lit by a new window installed either in an adjacent roof-slope or in the flanking gable.
5. One evening as I was walking through the village, I heard a voice coming from the gable end of a cottage, " Bonsoir, Monsieur.
6. Many were minor masterpieces, from the picturesque cottage and Queen Anne gable porch of the Union Pacific station at Park City, Utah (1886), to the beautiful pavilions with their elegant flights of steps at Haverstraw, New York, and Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; from the Norman revivalist Duluth, Minnesota (1892), with its steep-pitched roofs and twin conical towers, to the perfect proportions and beautifully handled materials of Point of Rocks, Maryland.
7. This can be avoided, however, by ensuring plenty of cross ventilation in the roof all round the eaves and at the gable ends by means of visible gaps, air bricks or ventilators.
8. The pitched roof of the main block was re-tiled and large areas of the painted external weatherboarding (including the whole of the rear gable) were taken down and replaced with new material backed with a lining of bituminous felt to better exclude the wind.
9. When I climbed down, unhurriedly making for the Temple and the Sacred Hitching Post of the Sun, I was amongst houses with gable ends, in narrow streets and lanes; in a place that had a human dimension.
10. There are stone monkeys on the gable tops of the east faade which faces gentle lawns, clipped yews and sloping pasture.
11. The original windows of the "east" gable and the side walls having become low-level lights closely related to the new upper floor, the fine stained glass they contain can now also be admired at close range.
12. As there is a trio of high and narrow lights in each main gable, the problem of reconciling this glazing with the added upper floor was less critical than in a case where large windows, surmounted by pointed arches, occupy the gables - this is almost a standard feature of Victorian village schools.
13. Section Three: Steel Fell, High Raise, Rossett Pike, Bowfell, Esk Pike, Great End, Great Gable, Kirkfell, Pillar, Scoat Fell, Steeple, Haycock, Seatallan, Middle Fell, finishing at the bridge at Greendale (GR 143056).