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oriel Definition

ori·el (ōrē əl, ôr-)

noun

a large window built out from a wall and resting on a bracket or a corbel; bay window

Etymology: OFr oriol < ML oriolum, porch, gallery

oriel Usage Examples

Converse of object

have: The gate tower of 1512 is paneled all the way up and has an oriel high up flanked by two statue niches.

Modifies a noun

  • window: At the southern end, near the light flooding in from the oriel window, would have been the high table.
  • bay: Two stories of a 2 light casement over a small 4 light oriel bay with part glazed door to right.
  • gelf: Mae Plaid Geidwadol Cymru wedi galw am oriel gelf genedlaethol yn gyson.
  • genedlaethol: Mae Plaid Geidwadol Cymru wedi galw am oriel gelf genedlaethol yn gyson.

Noun used with modifier

  • floor: Attic story to gable bay carried on timber corbel brackets above 1st floor oriel window also carried on timber brackets.
  • stone: The keystone is the pendant of half round stone oriel window above.

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