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O0118900 (ôr′ē-əl)n. A bay window projecting from an upper floor, often supported from below with corbels or brackets.

[Middle English, from Old French oriol, porch, from Medieval Latin oriolum.]

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art at origen (ˈɔr i əl, ˈoʊr-)

n. a bay window, esp. one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall. [1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French oriol porch, passage, gallery]

oriel

- A large, upper-story bay window, usually supported by brackets or on corbels.See also related terms for supported.

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oriel - a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a walloriel windowbow window, bay window - a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house

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bow-windowbovindo

oriel

(ôr`ēəl), projecting or bay window in an upper story, supported on brackets, corbels, or an engaged column, usually polygonal or curved in plan. It is most characteristic of the late medieval and early Renaissance period in England, where it was a favorite feature in civic and domestic buildings, but it is also found in France and Germany during the same period. The term is often loosely but incorrectly applied to any bay window.

oriel

oriel 1. In medieval English architecture, chiefly residential, and derivatives: (a) a bay window corbeled out from the wall of an upper story; (b) a bay projecting, inside or out, extending a room; (c) a windowed bay or porch at the top of exterior stairs. 2. (rare) In medieval Continental structures and derivatives, a subsidiary bay, or a corbeled, enclosed feature, exterior or interior.

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noun a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall

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