MEANING
A projecting bay window supported from below by brackets or corbels rather than extending to the ground.
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- stone oriel
- oriel window
- bracket-supported oriel
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The oriel projected over the narrow street.
Carved brackets carried the stone oriel above the entrance.
She could watch the courtyard from the oriel’s side windows.
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- oriel
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular oriel; plural oriels. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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