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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Oriel \O"ri*el\, n. [OF. oriol gallery, corridor, LL oriolum
portico, hall, prob. fr L. aureolus gilded, applied to an
apartment decorated with gilding. See {Oriole}.] [Formerly
written also {oriol}, {oryal}, {oryall}.]
1. A gallery for minstrels. [Obs.] --W. Hamper.
2. A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were
accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] --Cowell.
3. (Arch.) A bay window. See {Bay window}.
The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in
every carven glass. --Tennyson.
Note: There is no generally admitted difference between a bay
window and an oriel. In the United States the latter
name is often applied to bay windows which are small
and either polygonal or round; also to such as are
corbeled out from the wall instead of resting on the
ground.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
oriel
n : a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a
wall [syn: {oriel window}]
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