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  • adjective Alternative form of corbelled.

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Examples

  • Not exactly a mansion but formidable out here on the open prairie, a big old Victorian two-story home with all the trappings of a haunted house: a turret and wraparound porch, dormers and corbeled chimneys, a gable roof and scalloped shingles.

    'Await Your Reply' 2009

  • The light was coming through an opening about as wide as a garage door topped with the typical Mayan corbeled arch.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The long, narrow chamber had a high vaulted roof supported by arches, built in the corbeled fashion that the Maya favored with levels of horizontally laid blocks.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The long, narrow chamber had a high vaulted roof supported by arches, built in the corbeled fashion that the Maya favored with levels of horizontally laid blocks.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Instead there was another corbeled archway and beyond it a stairway leading upward.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Instead there was another corbeled archway and beyond it a stairway leading upward.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The light was coming through an opening about as wide as a garage door topped with the typical Mayan corbeled arch.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Pancho walked through a corbeled arch and seemed to disappear.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Pancho walked through a corbeled arch and seemed to disappear.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Another room, with a fine corbeled ceiling-another passage ...

    The Mummy Case Peters, Elizabeth 1985

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