long gallery

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

Atop the first roof we found ourselves in a long gallery of flying buttresses, which spanned outward like the landing struts of some alien spacecraft.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2014

So it fell to Obara Sand to roll the prince’s chair from Sun- spear’s feast hall and down a long gallery to his solar.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin