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Definition of Corbeils
1. corbeil [n] - See also: corbeil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corbeils
Literary usage of Corbeils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical by Robert Stuart (1854)
"corbeils, (corbis, Lat. a basket,) sculptured baskets of flowers or fruit, ...
In Fortification, corbeils are little baskets of earth set upon the parapets, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"Have we not pediments, shafts, capitals, &c., amongst the classical; and, what
is more to the purpose, soffits, corbeils, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"tudes ; in the elaborate stonework of ceilings, windows, and columns ; in
battlements, bosses, corbeils ; in the wood-carving of stalls, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"He recommends the visitor to see it when the oriel, the corbeils, grotesque and
grim, and the pillars, like bundles of lances bound with garlands, ..."
5. The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy by Pennsylvania Prison Society (1848)
"... towers project three-fourths of their circumference over the corners of the
building, and are crowned with embattled parapets, supported by corbeils. ..."
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