whispering gallery


noun
  1. 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.

Origin of whispering gallery

1
First recorded in 1690–1700

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How to use whispering gallery in a sentence

  • Was it impossible, then, in this horrible whispering gallery of London, to have any privacy of the soul?

    December Love | Robert Hichens
  • Above 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

whispering gallery

noun
  1. a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points

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