切きり妻づま造づくり

noun

gabled roof; gabled roof construction; building with a gabled roof

Refers to a roof with two sloping sides meeting at a ridge, or a building featuring such a roof. Common in traditional Japanese architecture.

• この神じん社じゃの本ほん殿でんは切きり妻づま造づくりです。

  The main hall of this shrine has a gabled roof.

• 切きり妻づま造づくりの家いえは雨あめに強つよいと言いわれている。

  Houses with gabled roofs are said to be resistant to rain.