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corbelling

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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.]

corbelling US, corbeling [ˈkɔːbəlɪŋ]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a set of corbels stepped outwards, one above another


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Here the masonry nature of the epidermis is powerfully revealed by corbelling the heads of the windows with increasingly projecting courses of brick exposed on the diagonal to provide a strong yet delicate three-dimensional carving into the monolith.
The masonry technique of free corbelling and the ancient art of muqarnas stalactite design is rediscovered for the purposes of detailing the spindly minaret balcony.
 
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