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

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

My father had this oriel built to please her.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

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 Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)