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Oriel

Oriel \O"ri*el\, 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oriel

"large recessed window," mid-14c., from Old French oriol "hall, vestibule; oriel," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin oriolum "porch, gallery" (mid-13c.), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *auraeolum, dissimilated from aulaeolum, a diminutive of Latin aulaeum "curtain." Despite much research, the sense evolution remains obscure.

Wiktionary
oriel

n. 1 (context architecture English) A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window. 2 (context obsolete English) A gallery for minstrels. 3 (context obsolete English) A small apartment next to a hall, used for dine.

WordNet
oriel

n. a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall [syn: oriel window]

Wikipedia
Oriel

Oriel may refer to: __NOTOC__

Oriel (scripting language)

Oriel is a scripting language released with the Power Tools series of instructional books written by the LeBlond Group. Described in its documentation as a "graphics-based batch language", it was originally designed for Microsoft Windows 3.0 and released with the book Windows 3 Power Tools in 1991. However, versions of the language were also bundled with Windows 3.1 Power Tools in 1992 and Windows NT Power Tools in 1994.

The suggested extension for an Oriel script file was ORL. Oriel was distributed with two executables: ORIEL.EXE, and MKRUNTIM.EXE. The former was the Oriel interpreter, which when invoked would prompt the user to choose a script file for execution. The latter gave the user the ability to create custom executables by bundling a script within a copy of the interpreter. In this way, an Oriel program could be distributed and run in the same way as any other Windows EXE.

The language was named after the oriel style of bay window. A window of that style is depicted in the icon distributed with the runtime.

Usage examples of "oriel".

CHAPTER VII THE WORK IN PROGRESS On the sheltered side of Eastbourne, just at the springing of the downs as you climb towards Beachy Head, is a spacious and heavy-looking stone house, with pillared porch, oriel windows on the ground floor of the front, and a square turret rising above the fine row of chestnuts which flanks the road.

The rough and undulating rent which marked the severance of the building was now thickly covered with ivy, which in its gamesome luxuriance had contrived also to climb up a remaining stack of tall chimneys, and to spread over the covering of the large oriel window.

Rhys Michael could reply, or Paulin could ask him to, the doors at the other end of the room parted to readmit Robear, one hand firmly on the elbow of a reluctant and frightened-looking Oriel.

Marcus had gone a little pale as Javan spoke, and he glanced nervously at Oriel and then at Paulin before replying.

He won a double first, however, and was elected a fellow of Oriel in April 1854, Dean Gaisford having refused to promote him to a senior studentship of his own college, on the ground that no servitor had ever before attained to that honour.

He found it more by instinct than by the Oriel description, which had been brainless and hurried.

Did it add a zest to facial repairs to have them watched over by the lions of Oriel or the martlets of Worcester?

Oriel murmured, when the coughing had abated and he could at last distract enough attention from his patient to look across at the anxious Javan.

She pushed herself up and walked slowly to the oriel window, where she stood looking down into the -magnificent gardens of Pennistone Royal.

Jacobean ceiling decorated with elaborate plasterwork, its tall leaded windows flanking the unique oriel window, and the carved fireplace of bleached oak.

Both were stupefied to see a tall hemlock growing along the larboard shore teeter in the wind, then continue to tee ter, its roots tearing up from the ground in a muddv tangle and the whole thing collapsing crash splash into the Oriel.

Oriel, sprinted up the slope toward the remains of the raft and untied the line that threaded the cheese casks together.

It would be a rotten thing indeed to suppose his cheeses were at the bottom of the Oriel or that the kegs, roped together, would drift oceanward on the tide and never be seen again.

It was a law of Oriel, of the whole island of Tir Isarnagiri, of the whole world as far as Conal knew.

By the time he had gotten rid of the bigger globs of laughter, the torrid Oriel Overlark had turned to ice.