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oryall

oryall is the obsolete form of oriel.

Meaning of oriel

Noun

oriel (plural oriels)

  1. A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.
    • The middle window of the oriel before her, just caught and reflected back the crimson light and colour. The ground below looked bright and warm compared with the shade around.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 202
  2. (obsolete) A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining.

Forms of oryall

pluraloryalls

Questions about oryall

What is oryall the obsolete form of?
Oryall is the obsolete form of oriel.

Words near oryall in the dictionary

  1. Orwellism
  2. Orwoll
  3. ORWs
  4. orxata
  5. orxatas
  6. oryall
  7. oryalls
  8. oryctere
  9. orycteres
  10. orycterope
  11. orycteropes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oryall (page history and authors); oriel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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