corbel table

American  

noun

1. a horizontal masonry construction, as a cornice or part of a wall, supported on corbels or on arches supported on corbels.

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Etymology

Origin of corbel table

Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

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corbel table

All the other nave windows are mere slits; and above them runs a rich corbel table of slightly stilted arches with their edges covered with ball ornament resting on projecting corbels.

From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson

At each angle are plain buttresses, weathered back a few feet below the corbel table, above which stand eight octagonal pinnacles each with eight smaller pinnacles surrounding a conical stone spire.

From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson

Externally, note the fantastic corbel table round chancel.

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

The buttresses, pinnacles and corbel table are much the same as before, but the parapet is much more elaborate and more like French flamboyant.

From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson

Notice under the short spire a quaint corbel table.

From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Edric Holmes