Corbels

Word CORBELS
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Corbels"

What do we mean by corbels?

A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

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The word "corbels" in example sentences

On each of the corbels is a boldly carved scene from the career of S. Etheldreda; they commence at the north-west arch. ❋ W. D. Sweeting (N/A)

"shouldered arches," as they are commonly called, though each merely consists of a flat lintel resting on corbels, which is not strictly an arch at all. ❋ George Worley (N/A)

It has painted orange stone corbels surrounding turquoise doors and windows and clay-red roof tiles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Rare pair of corbels from Louisiana plantation house ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lots of applied corbels, do-dads, and heavy molding on cabinetry. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So church architects also designed the vestments and sanctuary furnishings, the carved corbels and delicate chapel lights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brightly colored and carefully manicured, the home's exterior almost looks like a house in a Disney movie: painted orange stone corbels surrounding turquoise doors and windows and clay-red roof tiles. ❋ Nancy Keates (2011)

Around the south door and on the remaining corbels stone blocks set into the tops of the walls is a lexicon of British symbolism, with some decidedly pagan entries. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Beneath the muqarnas corbels that dripped down like man-made stalactites, Thanaa explained how Abu Jaafar al Mansour had built Baghdad in 762 A.D., surrounding it with a wall and carving four gates at ninety-degree angles—and erecting a library where interpreters translated into Arabic and preserved works in Persian, Greek, Sanskrit, and Syriac on astrology, mathematics, agriculture, medicine, and philosophy. ❋ Anna Badkhen (2010)

The effect upon the eye is not monotonous, for a patient art has infinitely varied the combinations of pattern and the juxtapositions of color; while the depth of undercutting of the stucco, and the treatment of the bronze doors and of the carved cedar corbels, necessarily varies with the periods which produced them. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2010)

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From painted tables and chip-carved benches to hand-hewn corbels and stone-carved columns, Mexican design elements are like mirrors reflecting a rich cultural history and the creativity of the hands that made them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Architectural elements -- old doors and gates; exposed beams, corbels and lintels; carved stone columns, moldings and doorway surrounds; stucco details, ceramic floor tiles — the true design elements that ornament a room. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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