oriel

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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

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 Sewell, Elizabeth

Mrs. Wyllys must look the other way, then—at the majestic proportions of her cupola, if she likes, for the oriel is to be a fact next month.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

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