corbeil

/kawr-buhl; French kawr-bey/US // ˈkɔr bəl; French kɔrˈbeɪ //UK // (ˈkɔːbəl, French kɔrbɛj) //

珊瑚,珊瑚礁,珊瑚岛,珊瑚虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a sculptured ornament, especially on a capital, having the form of a basket.

Eighteen years before, at Corbeil, five men had been kept in a pit on bread and water by Burgundians.
Royal troops seized Etamps and Corbeil to prevent the arrival of grains in Paris and starve out the city.
In 1466, the same tribunal condemned a man and a sow to be burned at Corbeil.
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.
This Mathieu, later in the afternoon, was arrested and taken to Corbeil in spite of his rheumatism.