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Definition for CORB'EL
CORB'EIL
CORB'EL
CORB'EL
, n.
1
[See the preceding words.]
In architecture, the representation of a basket, sometime set on the heads of caryatides.
The vase or tambor of the Corinthian column; so called from its resemblance to a basket. Encyc.
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