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oriel

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o·ri·el  (ôr-l, r-)
n.
A bay window projecting from an upper floor, supported from below with a corbel or bracket.
[Middle English, from Old French oriol, porch, from Medieval Latin oriolum.]
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Noun1.orieloriel - a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall
oriel window
bow window, bay window - a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house
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Behind us, two tall, shapely spruce trees rose up against the sunset, and through the dark oriel of their sundered branches an evening star looked down.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
``By the light of Our Lady's brow,'' said Prince John, ``our orders to him were most precise--- though it may be you heard them not, as we stood together in the oriel window---Most clear and positive was our charge that Richard's safety should be cared for, and woe to Waldemar's head if he transgress it
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
You will find, however, Miss Morland, it would be reckoned a cheap thing by some people, for I might have sold it for ten guineas more the next day; Jackson, of Oriel, bid me sixty at once; Morland was with me at the time.
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