Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - gallery
Gallery
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a room or building for showing works of art. 2 a balcony, esp. a platform projecting from the inner wall of a church, hall, etc., providing extra room for spectators etc. or reserved for musicians etc. (minstrels' gallery). 3 a the highest balcony in a theatre. b its occupants. 4 a a covered space for walking in, partly open at the side; a portico or colonnade. b a long narrow passage in the thickness of a wall or supported on corbels, open towards the interior of the building. 5 a long narrow room, passage, or corridor. 6 Mil. & Mining a horizontal underground passage. 7 a group of spectators at a golf-match etc. Phrases and idioms play to the gallery seek to win approval by appealing to popular taste. Derivatives galleried adj. Etymology: F galerie f. It. galleria f. med.L galeria
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noun (plural -leries) Etymology: Middle English galerie, from Medieval Latin galeria, probably alteration of galilaea galilee Date: 15th century 1. a roofed promenade ; colonnade, corridor 1, 2. an outdoor balcony, porch, veranda, a platform at the quarters or stern of a ship, 3. a long and narrow passage, apartment, or corridor, a subterranean passageway in a cave or military mining system, an underground passage made by a mole or ant or a passage made in wood by an insect (as a beetle), 4. a room or building devoted to the exhibition of works of art, an institution or business exhibiting or dealing in works of art, collection, aggregation , 5. a structure projecting from one or more interior walls (as of an auditorium or church) to accommodate additional people, the part of a theater audience seated in the top ~, the undiscriminating general public, the spectators at a sporting event (as a tennis or golf match), a small ornamental barrier or railing (as along the edge of a table or shelf), a photographer's studio, galleried adjective ~ite noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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