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gablet|ˈgeɪblɪt| [a. AF. gablet: see gable n.1 and -et1.] A little gable, esp. one constructed as an ornament over a tabernacle, niche, buttress, etc.
[1395Contracts for tomb of Rich. II & Anne in Rymer Fœdera (1709) VII. 798/1 Et auxi ferrount Tabernacles, appelles Hovels, ove Gabletz, de dit Metall Endorrez, as Testes.] a1440Sir Degrev. 1462 Alle the wallus of geete, With gaye gablettus and grete. 1512–3Contract 4 Jan. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 610 With Fynyalles, ryfant gablettes, Batelmentes..and euery other thyng belongyng to the same. 1846Ecclesiol. V. 17 These are generally worked in the three faces into gablets. 1861Times 12 Oct., A dim perspective of gables, gablets, dormers, and pointed roofs. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. ii. (1878) 20 It lifted its gablet carved to look like a canopy. Hence ˈgableted ppl. a., furnished with a gablet or gablets.
1865Athenæum No. 1959. 658/3 A column..surmounted by a gableted head. 1887Stratford-on-Avon Her. 21 Oct. 8/3 The central spire has on four opposite sides gableted spire lights. |