Oriana, dressed as a page, rescues him. He then declared
that his "inconstancy has had a lesson," and he marries the lady.--G.
Farquhar, _The Inconstant_ (1702).

_Oriana_, in Tennyson's ballad so called, "stood on the castle wall," to
see her spouse, a Norland chief, fight. A foeman went between "the
chief, and the wall," and discharged an arrow, which, glancing aside,
pierced the lady's heart and killed her. The ballad is the lamentation
of the spouse on the death of his bride (1830).

=O'riande= (3 _syl._), a fay who lived at Rosefleur, and was brought up
by Maugis d'Aygremont. When her _prot['e]g['e]_ grew up, she loved him,
"d'un si grand amour, qu'elle doute fort qu'il ne se departe d'avecques
elle."--_Romance de Maujis d'Aygremont et de Vivian son Fr[`e]re._

=O'riel=, a fairy, whose empire lay along the banks of the Thames, when
King Oberon held his court in Kensington Gardens.--Tickell, _Kensington
Gardens_ (1686-1740).

=Orient= (_The_). In _The New Priest of Conception Bay_, Fanny Dare sings
to little Mary Barr['e] how the good ship _Orient_ was wrecked.

"Woe for the brave ship Orient!
Woe for the old ship Orient!
For in the broad, broad light
With the land in sight,--
Where the waters bubbled white,--
One great, sharp shriek!--one shudder of affright!
And----
down went the brave old ship, the Orient!"

Robert Lowell, _The New Priest of Conception Bay_ (1858).

=Oriflamme=, the banner of St. Denis. When the counts of Vexin became
possessed of the abbey, the banner passed into their hands, and when, in
1082, Philippe I. united Vexin to the crown, the oriflamme or sacred
banner belonged to the king. In 1119 it was first used as a national
banner. It consists of a crimson silk flag, mounted on a gilt staff (_un
glaive tout dor['e] o[`u] est attach['e] une bani[`e]re vermeille_). The
loose end is cut into three wavy vandykes, to represent tongues of
flame, and a silk tassel is hung at each cleft. In war the display of
this standard indicates that no quarter will be given. The English
standard of no quarter was the "burning dragon."

Raoul de Presle says it was used in the time of Charlemagne, being the
gift of the patriarch of Jerusalem. We are told that all infidels were
blinded who looked upon it. Froissart says it was displayed at the
battle of Rosbecq, in the reign of Charles VI., and "no sooner was it
unfurled than the fog cleared away, and the