oriel (n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were
accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.
oriel (n.) A bay window. See Bay window.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionaryš
oriel Åā²ri-el, n. a portico or recess in
the form of a window built out from a wall, supported on brackets or
corbelsādistinguished from a bay window. [O. Fr. oriol, a
porchāLow L. oriolum, a highly ornamented recessāL.
aureolus, gildedāaurum, gold.]
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