Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowstepped
Literary usage of Crowstepped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"Here and there a windmill was seen, or the crowstepped gable of a country church,
with a stork perched on her nest atop. Thus we were carried past Roskilde, ..."
2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"... residences of the minor Scottish lairds, and, with its steep roofs and peaked
and crowstepped gables, forms not an unpleasant feature in the landscape. ..."
3. The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotlandby Robert William Billings, John Hill Burton by Robert William Billings, John Hill Burton (1901)
"... their high roofs, and crowstepped gables, flanked by occasional turrets, a
pretty accurate representation of the corporate towns of our ancestors. ..."
4. Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Chevalier by Andrew Lang (1903)
"... with her ancient Cathedral, her College courts and gardens, her houses with
tall crowstepped gables, situated on a clear and beautiful river. ..."
5. Romantic Edinburgh by John Geddie (1900)
"... or Wright's Houses, the strangely named and picturesque old edifice, with "peel
tower, turrets, and crowstepped gables ..."
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