oriel
Americannoun
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a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
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(in medieval architecture) a large bay window of a hall or chamber.
Etymology
Origin of oriel
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French oriol porch, passage, gallery, perhaps ≪ Latin aureolus “gilded”
Example Sentences
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Wrought-iron balconies, turrets, oriel windows: block after block, the residential facades were unique and homogenous at the same time.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2011
So, let's go ... through the neo-gothic oriel window!
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2010
I wish you could see your oriel now.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
The dessert still remained, but Dora and Margaret were standing at the round table in the oriel window, exhibiting their drawings to Lord Rochford, and Mr and Mrs Harrington were talking together apart.
From Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Sewell
These inscriptions are on two slabs of freestone beneath the two side-lights of the oriel window in the gallery of the palace.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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