bargeboard

(-bôrd′)

noun

a board, often ornate, attached along the barge couples of a gabled roof, as in Tudor and Gothic architecture

Origin: see barge couple

See bargeboard in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A board, often ornately carved, attached along the projecting edge of a pitched roof in front of a gable.

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