| 单词 | gable cresting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgable cresting gable cresting n. now rare a (typically decorative) course of brick, stone, etc., at the top of a gable (senses 1a, 2); cf. gable coping n. ΚΠ 1881 Rep. Branch Penitentiary Commissioners Kentucky (Legislative Doc. No. 15 Kentucky Gen. Assembly) 87 282 feet gable cresting, at 40 cents. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 553 Elaborate gable-cresting of the time of James I. 1960 Mem. Amer. Acad. Rome 26 94 The height..of walls and columns was just equal to the height of the roof from the capitals to the peak of the gable cresting. < as lemmas |
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