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bargeboard definition

barge·board (-bôrd′)

noun

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

Etymology: see barge couple

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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