corbel

Examples

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• In the living room, the wooden corbels help hold up the decorative shelf with family photos.

• But on the corbel table, the decorative ledges where the Sheela prototype was not-so-humbly born, she often appears as a merry acrobat, smiling through the "U" of her upturned legs.

  Academic text (2000)

• She was not one of a hundred figures on a corbel table but often the only figure on the building.

  Academic text (2000)

• She stands out among some eighty corbel carvings on the Church of St. Mary and St. David.

  Academic text (2000)

• With all of the rich images of Norman corbel motifs to choose from, the Irish had an affinity for the exhibitionist female.

  Academic text (2000)

• Duck cleaned up the last corbel brick joints flush with his trowel, but the fresh work wasn't right yet for striking up, so he started on his next course of brick.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The cathedral, sixth largest in the world, was an insatiable devourer of cash, its completion so near yet so far away; just another ten thousand for an additional gargoyle, forty thousand to reinforce a corbel in the north entrance, a hundred thousand to repair water damage in the Children's Chapel.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Corbels are brackets that support roofs or cornices, forming part of the decorative facade of buildings; often, each corbel was adorned by a carved figure, which might be distorted because of its burden of weight.

  Academic text (2000)

• The ancient bridge features beautifully carved stone corbels that support the arch above.

Compounds

C

corbel arch

• Specialized

9.9

An arch made by stacking layers of stone or brick that stick inward until they meet at the top

C

corbel step

• Specialized

9.9

A stone or brick step that sticks out along the sloping edge of a gable wall

How Sturdy

corbel

• Specialized

1 9.9

brace

85 4.0

bracket

17 3.8

hook

192 1.0

peg

20 2.7

Surface Forms

Etymology