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Oriel window

noun
1.
A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.  Synonym: oriel.






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"Oriel window" Quotes from Famous Books



... the veil, laid it again on the dressing-table, and surveyed the closet, where every object, on which her eye fixed, seemed to speak of the Marchioness. In a large oriel window of painted glass, stood a table, with a silver crucifix, and a prayer-book open; and Emily remembered with emotion what Dorothee had mentioned concerning her custom of playing on her lute in this window, before she observed the lute itself, ...
— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe

... which it rests, is boldly sculptured with foliage.—The chimneys are ornamented by angular buttresses.—All these portions of the building assimilate more or less to our Gothic architecture of the sixteenth century; but a most magnificent oriel window, which fills the whole of the space between the centre and left-hand divisions, is a specimen of pointed architecture in its best and purest style. The arches are lofty and acute. Each angle is formed by a double buttress, and the tabernacles affixed to these are filled with statues. ...
— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2) • Dawson Turner



Words linked to "Oriel window" :   bow window, bay window



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