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

Ruth stole to the little oriel window, and watched her husband as he turned from the moonlight and entered the shadows of the park.

From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

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)