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
Lichfield has a gallery over the sacristy door, which served the same purpose; and at Worcester an oriel was probably used by the watchers.
From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various
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 Paul Alexander Bartlett
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
