Definition of gallery

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

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Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Triforium :: Triforium (n.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows..
Baluster :: Baluster (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade..
Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.
Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Corridor :: Corridor (n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..
Amphitheatre :: Amphitheatre (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater..
Chase :: Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) 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..
Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..
Subworker :: Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted..
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc..
Pinacotheca :: Pinacotheca (n.) A picture gallery.
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