单词 | gablet |
释义 | gabletn. A small gable, esp. one designed as a decorative feature above a niche or panel, or forming the upper part of a buttress, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > canopy gabletc1440 gable1532 ogee1591 canopy1682 c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) l. 1478 (MED) Ale þe walle was of gete, Of [emended in ed. to With] gaye gabelettes and grete. 1513 Contract 4 Jan. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 610 With Fynyalles, ryfant gablettes, Batelmentes..and euery other thyng belongyng to the same. 1846 Ecclesiologist Jan. 17 These [saddle stones] are generally worked in the three faces into gablets. 1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. ii. 32 It [sc. an old monument of carved wood] lifted its gablet, carved to look like a canopy. 1916 C. F. Innocent Devel. Eng. Building Constr. vii. 90 The rafters which run up the intersection of the planes of a hipped roof are called hip rafters and in the older examples in the South of England they do not meet at the ridge, but finish below it, leaving a small gablet. 1970 H. Braun Parish Churches xiii. 168 Thirteenth-century buttresses were finished off with gablets. 2013 Church Times 16 Aug. 16/3 Decorated spires come complete with crockets, lucarnes, and gablets. Derivatives ˈgableted adj. having a gablet or gablets. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > gabled fastigious1625 gabled1791 gable-topped1836 gableted1853 step-gabled1937 1853 J. Grant Jane Seton I. vi. 55 Clusters of close piled mansions, turretted, gabletted and crow-stepped, tall and fantastic. 1887 Stratford-on-Avon Herald 21 Oct. 8/3 The central spire has on four opposite sides gableted spire lights. 1984 Archit. Hist. 27 348 Five bays of broad lancets flanked by splayed buttresses passing to gableted pinnacles. 2004 Sc. Archaeological Jrnl. 26 75 It is perfectly possible that suitably appointed chambers with gabletted windows would have been accommodated within this garret space. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1440 |
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