gablet
noun/ˈɡeɪb.lət/
Etymology From gable + -let or gable + -et.
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Architecture A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
- The Pinnacles are numerous, and very fine. They are in general square, and not on diagonally; the sides are frequently panelled, and terminate in crocketed canopies, or gablets, from which rises the spire, which is also crocketed at the angles, and terminates in a finial.1865, John Cassell, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, volume I, chapter 68:
- Almost opposite Clarence House, and immediately adjoining the Swan Hotel, is a lofty and somewhat narrow structure of four storeys, whose twin gablets overhang and overbend the street in quite a serious manner.1914, Francis B. Andrews, “The Old Houses of Tewkesbury”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the Birmingham Archaeological Society, volume 40, page 24:
- Derived terms
- gablet roof