whispering gallery
a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.
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How to use whispering gallery in a sentence
Bartiromo is, of course, just another gossipmonger and Newsball is his online whispering-gallery.
The same tiles are used in the “whispering gallery” outside the restaurant.
The keyboards are on the north side of the chancel, inside the organ case, and can be seen from the "whispering gallery."
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerBut there is a still more wonderful whispering gallery than that.
Fifty-Two Story Talks To Boys And Girls | Howard J. ChidleyHard by, is a whispering gallery, and a kind of gallery, said to have been made for the diversion of the women and children.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts
Was it impossible, then, in this horrible whispering gallery of London, to have any privacy of the soul?
December Love | Robert HichensAbove the gilt rails of the whispering gallery an inscription on a mosaic and gold ground has been placed.
Old and New London | Walter Thornbury
British Dictionary definitions for whispering gallery
a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points
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