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Gambrel
Also called gambrel roof
A gable roof with two pitches on each side, the lower steeper: the typical barn roof of the Netherlands and North America.
See also: Mansard
Rules that use the word
Name a roof by its slopes. Classify a roof by how its planes meet: one slope (shed), two meeting at a ridge (gable), four meeting at hips (hip, pyramid), a hip below a gable (hip-and-gable), two pitches each side (gambrel, mansard), or a curved surface (barrel, cone, dome).
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The Roof.
A feature of Georgian and Colonial architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Fusuma · Gable · Gablet · Gallery · Garbhagriha · Gardenesque · Gargoyle · Gavaksha