oriel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: oriel	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oriel n a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall Synonym(s): oriel, oriel window
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Oriel \O"riel\, 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.