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Gallery   /gˈæləri/   Listen
Gallery

noun
(pl. galleries)
1.
Spectators at a golf or tennis match.
2.
A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed).  Synonyms: veranda, verandah.
3.
A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited.  Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery.
4.
A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose.
5.
A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns).
6.
Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade.
7.
A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine.  Synonyms: drift, heading.



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"Gallery" Quotes from Famous Books



... faithful Susan. Their visitor would trust her not less, and she herself would adore their visitor. Moreover he wouldn't—the girl felt sure—tell her anything dreadful. The worst would be that he was in love and that he needed a confidant to work it. And now she was going to the National Gallery. ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... flowered silk, and James in his usual hard, rent-collecting clothes—at the foot of the double staircase, which sprang with the light of elegance of wings from the floor of the entrance-hall of Wilbraham Hall. In front of them, over the great door, was a musicians' gallery, and over that a huge window. On either side of the great door were narrow windows which looked over stretches of green country far away from the Five Towns. For Wilbraham Hall was on the supreme ridge of Hillport, and presented ...
— Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett
... as Oxenbridge had not walked during the night. The only one of them who did not attend mass was Jem Bottles, who said he was not well enough and therefore would remain on watch. Just as mass was finished Jem appeared in the gallery of the chapel and ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... the door, stepped into the small parlor, and (greatly to the disappointment of Mr. Gallery) closed ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... usually respectable tradesmen, who wear hats with brims inclined to flatness, and who occasionally testify in gilt letters on a blue ground, in some conspicuous part of the church, to the important fact of a gallery having being enlarged and ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens


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