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

My father had this oriel built to please her.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

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

“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