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

These inscriptions are on two slabs of freestone beneath the two side-lights of the oriel window in the gallery of the palace.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

His chamber is neither large nor elegant, its walls are plainly papered, and its single oriel window is shaded by a faded curtain.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

When I reached the parlour I found them confronting one another, my lady standing in the oriel with her back to the street.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.