gablet

From gable +‎ -let or gable +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪb.lət/

gablet (plural gablets)

1. (architecture) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
   • 1865, John Cassell, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, volume I, chapter 68:

     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.

   • 1914, Francis B. Andrews, “The Old Houses of Tewkesbury”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the Birmingham Archaeological Society, volume 40, page 24:

     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.

• “gablet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• baglet

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gablet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of gabeln