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
Still Amy did not care; for she had determined in her own mind that they would decide upon the bedroom oriel, which was just over the old schoolroom.
From Amy Herbert by Sewell, Elizabeth
“And in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incardines, Like a fair lady at her casement, shines The Evening Star, the star of love and rest.”
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon
Some of the decorative bits that catch the eye right and left, are absolute gems in their way—whether oriel windows, or fantastic turrets, or figures and devices embossed and sculptured.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
