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Whispering gallery   /wˈɪspərɪŋ gˈæləri/   Listen
Whispering gallery

noun
1.
A space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points.  Synonym: whispering dome.






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"Whispering gallery" Quotes from Famous Books



... jasmine gives up its perfume to the night, so does an old house its past in the form of murmurs and crackings and memories and suggestions. Notwithstanding Dunn's attentions there were rats alive in the cellars and under the boarding—and mice; the passages leading to the kitchen premises made a whispering gallery where murderers seemed consulting together if the scullery window were forgotten and left open—as it usually was, and boards in the uneven flooring that had been preparing for the act for weeks and months would suddenly "go ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole



Words linked to "Whispering gallery" :   dome



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