Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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}.]
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1. A gallery for minstrels. [Obs.] --W. Hamper.
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2. A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were
accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] --Cowell.
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3. (Arch.) A bay window. See {Bay window}.
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The beams that thro' the oriel shine
Make prisms in every carven glass. --Tennyson.
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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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oriel
n 1: a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a
wall [syn: {oriel}, {oriel window}]
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