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.

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It seems art has gone Hollywood these days, with record-breaking prices and long gallery lines.
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They sped down a long gallery, swift and silent as flight in a dream; another door, another guardsman.
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"The long gallery—all one long room, you know," he answered.
Tristram of Blent | Anthony Hope
Mina Zabriska could make out a figure in the long gallery now.
Tristram of Blent | Anthony Hope
The scene in the long gallery had at least been different from this!
Tristram of Blent | Anthony Hope

The long gallery ran around three sides of the house, with the stairs forming the fourth.
Three Margarets | Laura E. Richards

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