A small gable or a decorative gable-shaped architectural feature, especially found on Gothic buildings and churches.
From gable + -et diminutive suffix (French-influenced). The -et suffix creates diminutive forms meaning 'small' (like hamlet, tablet), indicating this is a smaller version of a gable.
Gablets are quintessential Gothic architecture—these tiny decorative triangular features, often covering windows or buttresses, became almost obsessive in late Gothic design, with some buildings decorated with hundreds of them.
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