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Gallery

noun

(pl. galleries)

Spectators at a golf or tennis match.

A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed). Synonyms: veranda, verandah.

A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited. Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery.

A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose.

A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns).

Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade.

A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine. Synonyms: drift, heading.

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"Gallery" Quotes from Famous Books

... Nelson's cocked hat when Victor, distinguishably bright-faced amid a crowd of the irradiated, emerged from the tideway to cross the square, having thoughts upon Art, which were due rather to the suggestive proximity of the National Gallery than to the Flemish mouldings of cloud-forms under Venetian brushes. His purchases of pictures had been his unhappiest ventures. He had relied and reposed on the dicta of newspaper critics; who are sometimes unanimous, and are then taken for ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... a biographical dictionary of artists, a gallery of pen portraits and of beautiful scenes, sketched by the painters and multiplied by the engraver. It is in all respects a work of art, and will meet the wants of a large class whose tastes are in that direction."—New ...

— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor

... the first floor of the Francois I. wing, the queen-mother, held her court, as did the king his. The great gallery over-looked the town on the side of the present Place du Chateau. It was, and is, a truly grand apartment, with diamond-paned windows, and rich, dark wall decorations on which Catherine's device, a crowned C and her monogram in gold, frequently appears. There was, moreover, a great ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various

... He regarded Cruikshank's illustrations to the last named work—more particularly that one depicting Corinthian Tom "getting the best of Charley,"—as far better worth looking at than the whole collection in the National Gallery, a place where he had once whirled away a tedious hour or two ...

— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent

... a hurry. I saw it. I had scampered with all my might after one of the engines, but only to find a dense crowd on the spot before me. There was a wide circle kept round the place, and never did circus-goers fight for a front row in the gallery as did that crowd fight for a front place at ...

— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed

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