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corbelled

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cor·bel  (kôrbl, -bl)
n.
A bracket of stone, wood, brick, or other building material, projecting from the face of a wall and generally used to support a cornice or arch.
tr.v. cor·beled also cor·belled, cor·bel·ing also cor·bel·ling, cor·bels also cor·bels
To provide with or support by a corbel or corbels.

[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of corp, raven (from the similarity of its shape to that of a raven's beak), from Latin corvus.]
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Adj.1.corbelled - having a corbel


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Under former Bogota mayor Penalosa, Colombian maestro Rogelio Salmona designed several branch libraries whose social brief was nothing less than the reintegration of communities rent by decades of civil war--by means of the civility of library functions, and the visuality of his corbelled brick forms.
Its architectural details include decorative surfaces of embossed terra cotta, tall decorative corbelled brick chimneys, stone-columned arched entrances, and square- and round-headed windows topped by terra cotta lintels and brick arches, respectively.
Like the doors and balcony behind you, the heavy dark wooden beams spanning over the cylindrical columns of the arcade are traditional in form with carved corbelled brackets and wrought iron straps.
 
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