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corbeil
or cor·beille
[ kawr-buhl; French kawr-bey ]
noun
- a sculptured ornament, especially on a capital, having the form of a basket.
corbeil
/ ˈkɔːbəl; kɔrbɛj /
noun
- architect a carved ornament in the form of a basket of fruit, flowers, etc
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of corbeil1
C18: from French corbeille basket, from Late Latin corbicula a little basket, from Latin corbis basket
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Example Sentences
Eighteen years before, at Corbeil, five men had been kept in a pit on bread and water by Burgundians.
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Royal troops seized Etamps and Corbeil to prevent the arrival of grains in Paris and starve out the city.
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In 1466, the same tribunal condemned a man and a sow to be burned at Corbeil.
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Every three trucks were drawn by four horses, and thus it was that we took the train to Corbeil,—a distance of some fifty miles.
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This Mathieu, later in the afternoon, was arrested and taken to Corbeil in spite of his rheumatism.
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