oriel window
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of oriel window
C14: from Old French oriol gallery, perhaps from Medieval Latin auleolum niche
Example Sentences
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So, let's go ... through the neo-gothic oriel window!
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2010
We were admitted with reluctance into a magnificent hall which magically matched our description: stone-paved, with a vaulted roof, and an immense oriel window the height of two stories.
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
It is lighted by an oriel window corresponding to that 28 in the library.
From The Lure of the Camera by Olcott, Charles S.
Under the oriel window, where I had seen her first, she lay on a little couch.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
Their laughter reached me as I sat solitary and alone in the oriel window, over which lace curtains fell, and were kindled up like snow by the lights from without.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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