Meanings
plural gablets
- architectureA small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
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 241 more example
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
Origin
From gable + -let or gable + -et.
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