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long gallery

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noun

  1. a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.


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A number of pictures from the exhibition Seen to be Heard will be used at Stormont's long gallery where the women will also present their manifesto to MLAs later on Wednesday.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2022

I am sucked into a long gallery of Los Angeles cult figurines, and cult people, up all night like vampires and bikers.”

From The New Yorker Sep. 29, 2015

One long gallery wall is devoted to a nearly 250-year timeline of innovators and strivers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2015

The discrepancies emphasized timing and choice, while the dancers’ spacing — at receding distances down a long gallery inhabited by John Chamberlain’s sculptures of crumpled car metal — gave “Flat” depth.

From New York Times Oct. 23, 2014

Again he had to cross the long gallery.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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