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”
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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
Still Amy did not care; for she had determined in her own mind that they would decide upon the bedroom oriel, which was just over the old schoolroom.
From Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Sewell
The moonlight came flickering through the oriel window, as if a bunch of silver arrows had been shivered against it, half illuminating the room with a soft, beautiful light.
From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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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