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ORIEL , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, a projecting See also:

BAY

bay window on an upper See also:

STOREY (equivalents are Fr. etage, Ital. piano, Ger. Stock)

storey, which is carried by corbels or See also:

MOULDINGS

mouldings. It is usually polygonal or semicircular in See also:

plan, but at See also:

Oxford in some of the colleges there are examples which are rectangular and rise through two or three storeys. In See also:

Germany it forms a favourite feature, and is sometimes placed at the See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of a See also:

BUILDING

building, carried up through two or three floors and covered with a lofty roof. The oriel is also said to have been provided as a See also:

RECESS (Lat. recessus, a going back, withdrawal, from recedere, to withdraw)

recess for an See also:

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar in an See also:

ORATORY (Lat. oratorio, sc. ors; from orare, to speak or pray)

oratory or small See also:

CHAPEL

chapel. In the 15th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century oriels came into See also:

general use, and are frequently found over entrance gateways. The origin of the word is unknown. The suggested derivation from See also:

LAT

Lat. aureolurn, with the supposed meaning of a gilded chamber or See also:

ROOM

room, is not, according to the New See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary, See also:

BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne out by any See also:

HISTORICAL

historical See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence, and See also:

early See also:

French forms —such as eurieul—do not point to an origin in a word beginning with au. Du Cange (Glossarium, s.v. Oriolum) quotes See also:

Matthew of See also:

Paris (1251, Vitae Abbatum S. See also:

Albani): adjacet See also:

ATRIUM (either from ater, black, referring to the blackening of the walls from the smoke of the hearth, or from the Greek aiOpeov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated)

atrium nobilissimum in introitu, quad porticus vel Oriolum appellatur; and also a French use of 1338, where a See also:

LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence to build an oriol is granted to one Jehan Bourgos. The earliest meaning seems to be a See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery, See also:

PORTICO (Ital. for " porch," Lat. porticus)

portico or See also:

CORRIDOR (Fr. corridor, from Ital. corridore, Med. Lat. corridorium, a " running-place," from currere, to run)

corridor, and the application of the See also:

TERM

term to a particular See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of window apparently arose from such a window being in an " oriel." In See also:

CORNWALL

Cornwall " oriel " is still used of a See also:

BALCONY (Ital. balcone from balco, scaffold; cf. O. H. Ger. balcho, beam, Mod. Ger. Balken, Eng. balk)

balcony or See also:

PORCH (through the Fr. porehe, from Lat. porticus; the Ital. equivalent is portico, corresponding to the Gr. vapOi ; Ger. Vorhalle)

porch at the See also:

head of an outside See also:

STAIRCASE

staircase leading to an upper See also:

story in a fisherman's cottage. The name of Oriel See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, at Oxford, comes from a See also:

TENEMENT (Med. Lat. tenetnentum, from tenere, to hold)

tenement known as See also:

SENESCHAL (the O. Fr. form, mod. senechal, of the Low Lat. senescalcus, a word of Teutonic origin, meaning " old or senior servant," Goth. sini- old; cf. Lat. senex and stalks, servant; Du Cange's derivation from seneste, flock, herd, must be rejected)

Seneschal See also:

Hall or La See also:

ORIOLE (O. Fr. Oriol, Lat. aureolus)

Oriole, and granted to the college in 1327.

There is no trace of the See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason why the tenement was so called, but it would seem that it referred to one of the earlier applications of the word, to a gallery or porch, rather than to a window.

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