gallery
[gal-uh-ree, gal-ree]
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noun, plural gal·ler·ies.
Origin of gallery
1400–50; late Middle English < Old French galerie < Medieval Latin galeria, by dissimilation or suffix replacement from galilea, galilæa galilee
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Historical Examples of galleried
What its galleried courtyard was like let this sketch record.
The Bath RoadCharles G. (Charles George) Harper
The galleried inn-yards, and among them that at which the Pilgrims sojourned on their road to Canterbury, are among them.
From these marble memorials of the dead you turn to the galleried pew where, in life, those they commemorate were wont to worship.
Historic Sites of Lancashire and CheshireJames Croston
The hall was galleried to the top; and, lo, the entrance door at the top was covered with green baize and brass nails.
Real Ghost StoriesWilliam T. Stead
The oriel just this side is whole cloth from Haddon Hall, and the galleried porch next it from a Florentine villa.
The Celebrity, CompleteWinston Churchill
galleried
adjective
gallery
noun plural -leries
Word Origin for gallery
C15: from Old French galerie, from Medieval Latin galeria, probably from galilea galilee, a porch or chapel at entrance to medieval church
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