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oriel |
2 definitions found 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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