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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
His chamber is neither large nor elegant, its walls are plainly papered, and its single oriel window is shaded by a faded curtain.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)
He turned as he spoke; and I saw behind him a heavy curtain hiding the oriel window of the lobby.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
The Manor House is very old; such quaint little oriel windows, and turrets, and gables.
From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.