Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CORBEL
corbel, truss
(noun) (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
corbel
(verb) furnish with a corbel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
corbel (plural corbels)
(architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
Verb
corbel (third-person singular simple present corbels, present participle corbeling or corbelling, simple past and past participle corbeled or corbelled)
(transitive) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Anagrams
• Cobler, cobler
Source: Wiktionary
Cor"bel, n. Etym: [F. corbeau, for older corbel, dim. of L. corbis basket. (Corbels were often in the form of a basket.) See Corbeil.] (Arch.)
Definition: A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
Note: A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.
Cor"bel, v. t.
Definition: To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. To corbel out, to furnish with a corbel of courses, each projecting beyond the one next below it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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