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
I stood in the oriel window that curved out from one end of the large parlor and looked toward the east; that is, it commanded a broad view from all points, save the direct west.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
Under the oriel window, where I had seen her first, she lay on a little couch.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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
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