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
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
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
The uncomplimentary confidence was made into the shell-like ear of Mrs. Talmage Eglinton, who, faultlessly gowned by Worth, was sitting apart with her nominal hostess in the embrasure of an oriel window.
From The Duke Decides by Headon Hill
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