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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

Her own oriel window, and Archie's next it, shone bravely.

From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

“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

Windows to the streets are common, and the oriel windows, with their warm brown lattices projecting over the roadways at irregular heights, are strikingly picturesque.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)