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fly gallery

American  

noun

Theater.

  1. a narrow platform at the side of a stage from which ropes are manipulated to raise or lower scenery, battens, etc.

Etymology

Origin of fly gallery

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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John and I are standing four stories up from Pennsylvania Avenue NW, in the National Theatre’s fly gallery, the space that overlooks the stage.

From Washington Post

The northeast corner of the fly gallery was now a furnace.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, when Booth and Barrett played here you could hear them breathe way up in the fly gallery.”

From Project Gutenberg

About ten feet from the front of the fly gallery I saw a bright light.

From Project Gutenberg

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