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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

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.

Ruth stole to the little oriel window, and watched her husband as he turned from the moonlight and entered the shadows of the park.

From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Frank was standing behind Dolly's chair in the faint green light of the old oriel window.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss