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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

Frank was standing behind Dolly's chair in the faint green light of the old oriel window.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

“Lo! in the painted oriel of the west, Whose panes the sunken sun incardines, Like a fair lady at her casement shines The Evening Star, the star of love and rest.”

From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon

A bay-window did duty for the more roomy oriel, and the shelf, which was an extension of the sill, was filled with plants.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion