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   Oriel , 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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   A gallery for minstrels. [Obs.]
   W. Hamper.
   
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   A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.]
   Cowell.
   
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   (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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   ☞ 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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