corbels
- present tense form of corbel (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The door of 10 Downing Street was copied from the original and is enclosed within a composite fibreglass painted architrave "flanked by scrolled acanthus leaf corbels" and surrounded by black-painted iron railings.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2023
Longstaffe-Gowan also installed sculptures from Morgan’s collection, including a Roman sarcophagus, a Roman funerary stele and two Renaissance corbels, in the garden.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022
Engravings can be admired on corbels and finials across the UK, remnants of a time when keeping up with the neighbours meant throwing lavish parties and displaying one's riches.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2020
“It would have been a shame to lose all of the trim, the corbels the drop work and rip it down and make a cookie-cutter building.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2019
He studied one by one the grotesque carvings of dwarfs that decorated the roof bosses, and the corbels finishing the doorway.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
