Having a window or windows located in a gable or in the gable section of a wall; designed with windows in the triangular wall area under the roof.
Compound adjective: gable + windowed (from window + -ed, meaning 'having windows'). Describes the specific placement and presence of windows in the gable section.
Gable windows were a practical solution and a status symbol—they let light into upper floors that were historically storage or servant spaces, but they also signaled to the street that you had an impressive roof structure worth displaying.
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