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gallery

gal·lery

US/ˈɡæləɹi/ common

noun

1.

spectators at a golf or tennis match

2.
3.

a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

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4.

a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose

  • “shooting gallery”
5.

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

6.
7.

a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine

  • “they dug a drift parallel with the vein”
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Origin

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.

Phrases

  • art gallery
  • gallery forest
  • gallery hit
  • gallery organ
  • gallery shot
  • minstrel gallery
  • minstrels' gallery
  • mobile gallery

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