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

How cold to hear them now, here, in my room, echoing from varnished beams, off-stage in my oriel of yesterday.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander

Not less so are latticework galleries, which are often thrown across the street to connect the two houses of wealthy residents, and the sitting-rooms with oriel windows, which likewise bridge the roadways.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Her own oriel window, and Archie's next it, shone bravely.

From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary