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gallery

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1. gallery - Noun

2. gallery - Adjective

3. gallery - Verb

4. Gallery - Proper noun

Meaning

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.

A working drift or level.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. Thomas Babington Macaulay

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. Thom Gunn

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. George Bernard Shaw

Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. Thomas Carlyle

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. Ayn Rand

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