Having a gable or gables; designed or built with a triangular roof section.
From gable (from Old Norse gafl via Middle English) + -ed suffix. The -ed suffix converts nouns to adjectives meaning 'having' or 'characterized by' the noun.
Gabled buildings became incredibly fashionable during the Renaissance and Gothic periods—if you wanted to show you were wealthy or important, a prominently gabled roof was the way to go, which is why gabled houses cluster in medieval city centers where the rich built.
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