oriel
Example Sentences
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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
Their laughter reached me as I sat solitary and alone in the oriel window, over which lace curtains fell, and were kindled up like snow by the lights from without.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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 Edward Conybeare
When I reached the parlour I found them confronting one another, my lady standing in the oriel with her back to the street.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
