corbel table

English

Noun

corbel table (plural corbel tables)

  1. (architecture) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them.

Usage notes
  • The term is less properly used to include the stringcourse on the corbels.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corbel table”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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