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
The oriel window at its farther end is lighted up, and from it can be seen a picture, living, real, that resembles fairy-land.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
The melancholy half light coming wanly through the oriel window by which he stood, fell full upon the face of Rupert Thetford, white and cold, and set as marble.
From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes
A cool evening breeze blows in through the open oriel window, quickly dispersing the clouds of tobacco smoke.
From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. II. by Auerbach, Berthold
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 Conybeare, Edward
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