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whispering gallery

  1. a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.


whispering gallery

  1. a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whispering gallery1

First recorded in 1690–1700
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Example Sentences

Bartiromo is, of course, just another gossipmonger and Newsball is his online whispering-gallery.

The same tiles are used in the “Whispering Gallery” outside the restaurant.

The keyboards are on the north side of the chancel, inside the organ case, and can be seen from the "whispering gallery."

But there is a still more wonderful whispering gallery than that.

Hard by, is a whispering gallery, and a kind of gallery, said to have been made for the diversion of the women and children.

Was it impossible, then, in this horrible whispering gallery of London, to have any privacy of the soul?

Above the gilt rails of the whispering gallery an inscription on a mosaic and gold ground has been placed.

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