A small ornamental bracket, often in the shape of a scroll, used for decorating and supporting a wall fixture.
(Architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
1Parapets were at the same time added above the Norman corbel tables.
2Since then, she has been immortalised with a stone corbel.
3The original corbel course of the parapet remains, but not the upper part of the parapet.
4Above this is a corbel table of heads and mouldings which interferes with the upper window mouldings.
5Immediately below the corbel, and well detached from the squadrons of attendant saints, Christ rises from His throne.
6There was a slight wind, and I was glad to have nothing to do with the iron corbel.
7You know how to lay a corbel, but just now you couldn't tell me how much cribbing was coming.
8Scholars debate whether the name was meant to suggest a crow (corbeau) or even corbel, an architectural term.
9If they gave a month or more to the carving of a single capital or corbel, he made no remonstrance.
10Fantastic corbel-heads and other sculptured details disappear every year from the Gothic houses, and find their way into private museums.
11The fine bosses in both transepts merit attention, and so do the corbel-heads to the intermediate vaulting shafts in this one.
12Two flying buttresses rise from the corners of the nave and transept aisles to the corbel table of the clerestory range.
13The space between each corbel is bridged over by small single stones cut out to the shape of a semicircular arch.
14One fancies each corbel to have had its history, its archetype in nature; a thousand possible stories spring into one's mind.
15If you wish to throw out any bold projection, you may support it on a long and sloping corbel of brickwork.
16Their arched Victorian corbel style in extrimoz marble is reduced from €4,950 to €2,475.