long gallery

noun

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

It seems art has gone Hollywood these days, with record-breaking prices and long gallery lines.

They sped down a long gallery, swift and silent as flight in a dream; another door, another guardsman.

"The Long Gallery—all one long room, you know," he answered.

Mina Zabriska could make out a figure in the Long Gallery now.

The scene in the Long Gallery had at least been different from this!

The long gallery ran around three sides of the house, with the stairs forming the fourth.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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