A gallery for minstrels. [Obs.] W. Hamper.
A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] Cowell.
A bay window. See Bay window. The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. Tennyson.
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