Definition of Gallery

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Gallery

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.

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Gallery Quotations

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

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
Payne Stewart

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
Yoko Ono

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Andrew Wyeth

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

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
Daniel Libeskind

Gallery Translations

gallery in Afrikaans is galery
gallery in Dutch is gaanderij, galerij, gang, galerie
gallery in Finnish is parveke
gallery in French is poulailler, exposition, galerie
gallery in German is Empore, Galerie
gallery in Norwegian is galleri, stoll
gallery in Portuguese is galeria

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