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5 letters · 5 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall
originFrom Middle English oriel, from Old French oriol (“gallery, corridor”), Late Latin oriolum (“portico, hall”), probably from Latin aureolus (“gilded”), applied to an apartment decorated with gilding. See oriole. Or a diminutive of Latin os (“mouth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0