galleryn.

Brit.

/ˈɡal(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈɡæl(ə)ri/

Forms: 1500s galary(e, 1500s–1600s gallerie, 1600s gallary, 1500s, 1700s galery, 1500s– gallery.

Etymology: < French galerie = Spanish galeria, Portuguese galaria, Italian galleria = medieval Latin galeria, of unknown origin.

1. A covered space for walking in, partly open at the side, or having the roof supported by pillars; a piazza, portico, colonnade.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > portico or arcade

alurec1325

alley1363

gallerya1500

aluring1501

cloisterc1540

pawn1548

stoa1603

portico1607

row1610

porticus1617

corridor1620

piazza1642

xystus1664

arcade1731

veranda1873

a1500 Assembly Ladies 165 The galeryes right wonder wel y-wrought.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 67 To be edifyit..with tavernis and galaris [L. porticus], to sauf thaim fra somer schouris, or fra fervant hetis of the sone.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvii. 358 Chrysippus, who was saide to proppe vppe the gallerie of the Stoickes.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 496 This image of hers was set vp in the great gallery or publick walking-place of Metellus.

1648 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 260 The rebuilding of y^e Gallery in y^e fellowes orchard.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 87 The vestry leads to the gallery or cloisters of the convent.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 729 There is in the gallery of the Tuilleries, on the right as you enter the gardens, an Ionic column.

a. A long, narrow platform or balcony, constructed on the outside of a building, at some elevation from the ground, and open in front except as having a balustrade or railing.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > balcony

gallery1509

balcony1618

balcon1635

pergolaa1641

gazebo1843

mashrabiyya1850

basket-balcony1866

balconette1876

sun deck1876

1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. Avij His walles & galaryes of grete pleasure.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 65/1 Hee came foorth of his chamber, and yet not down vnto them, but stode aboue in a galarye ouer them.

1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 57 The Lady is in the gallerie ouer her garden, taking the fresh aire of the coole night.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xlii. 3 Ouer against the pauement which was for the vtter court, was gallerie against gallery in three stories.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 342 The first House has a large Court before it and open Gallerys all round it... This Gallery leads to all the chambers.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §24 The lantern for the lights, surrounded by a gallery or balcony.

1842 C. Dickens Let. 1 May (1974) III. 229 A wide, handsome gallery, outside every story.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 93 We lounged lazily in the wooden gallery, smoking our pipes.

1894 Daily News 26 Mar. 5/4 Our old coaching inns, with their roomy yards and railed galleries.

b. A similar passage on the roof of a house.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > balustraded platform round roof

gallery1535

machicoulis gallery1834

widow's walk1920

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vi. 10 He buylded a galery also aboue vpon the whole house fyue cubytes hye.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xxxii, in Poems (new ed.) 78 Round the roofs ran gilded galleries That gave large view to distant lands.

c. Architecture. A long narrow passage either made in the thickness of a wall, or supported on corbels, having its open side towards the interior of a building, and serving both for ornament and as a means of communication.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun]

alley1363

tresance1428

passagea1525

gallery1541

trance1545

through-passage1575

lobby1596

passageway?1606

conduit1624

gangway1702

vista1708

glidec1710

aisle1734

gallery1756

corridor1814

traverse1822

heck1825

rotunda1847

scutchell1847

zaguan1851

aisleway1868

pend1893

dogtrot1901

fairway1903

dog run1904

dog walk1938

walkout1947

coulisse1949

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 319 A gallery which leads round the inside near the roof, from whence the church makes a beautiful appearance.

d. Nautical. A balcony built outside the body of a ship, at the stern ( stern-gallery), or at the quarters ( quarter-gallery).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > balcony or gallery at stern or quarter

gallery1627

balcony1666

quarter-gallery1740

stern-gallery1842

stern-walk1867

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 11 The Brackets are little carued knees to support the Galleries.

1679 London Gaz. No. 1393/1 During which time, our Quarter took fire, and burnt the Gallery, but we happily quencht it.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 313 As to her Quarter, the Carpenters made her a neat little Gallery on either Side.

1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 41 A soldier..having broken the upper quarter-gallery window, I jumped in.

1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 37 From her poop and galleries, the enemy sorely annoyed..the British.

1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles i. 14 They lay under the stern gallery of the frigate.

†e. Aeronautics. An enclosed platform attached to a balloon to carry passengers. Obsolete.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > basket or car

basket1783

car1783

gallery1784

nacelle1853

boat car1877

gondola1896

1784 London Chron. LVI. 1/3 Yesterday..an air balloon..was let off at Versailles... There was a large gallery fixed to it, in which were M. Charles, M. James, M. Montgolfier, and an Officer of the army.

1905 G. Bacon Balloons ii. 28 Instead of a gallery to carry the passengers, as in the ‘Montgolfier’, a car shaped like a boat was suspended from the net.

3. A platform, supported by columns or brackets, projecting from the interior wall of a building, and serving e.g. to provide additional room for an audience.

a. gen.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > interior gallery

loft1504

gallery1715

1715 S. Sewall Diary 4 Feb. (1973) II. 785 Mr. Hiller read it, out of the Council-Chamber Gallery.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. iii. 36 The library..a large Gothic room, with double arches and a gallery .

1854 Willis in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 168 The proposed Museum..has a gallery running round.

b. In churches.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > gallery > [noun]

loft1504

gallery1630

tribune1865

1630 J. Taylor Wks. iii. 56/2 And twenty pound he gaue to build a Gallerie in the same Church.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xiv. 103 As for out-lodgings (like galleries, necessary evils in populous Churches) he rather tolerates then approves them.

1690 S. Sewall Diary 11 Sept. (1973) I. 266 Having also found that sitting so near the out-side of the House [sc. the meeting-house] causeth me in Winter-time to take cold in my head, I removed into Gallery.

1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 38 If the Church-wardens would..make a new Gallery, or add anything else to the Church.

1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xix. 494 My voice was heard distinctly in every part of the building, up to the western gallery.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 54 In churches of the same kind, however, we find the groined vault used to carry a gallery in the aisles.

c. In a theatre. Now spec. the highest of such projecting platforms, containing the cheapest seats.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > gallery

gallery1690

sky-parlour1747

amphitheatre1859

paradise1864

peanut gallery1876

nigger heaven1878

1690 J. Crowne Eng. Frier iv. 32 I am..Governour o' the eighteen-penny Gallery i' the Play-house.

a1704 T. Brown 1st Satyr Persius Imitated in Wks. (1707) I. i. 75 I, who never pass'd as yet The Test of the mis-judging Pit, Nor ith' Galleries tickl'd Crowd.

1816 Times 25 Jan. In what part of the theatre was the one-shilling gallery?

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiv. 227 A couple of people who were cracking nuts in the gallery.

d. In a senatorial chamber. Also members'-gallery, press-gallery, strangers'-gallery.ladies' gallery: see lady n. Compounds 3b.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > place of meeting > parts of

bar1583

lobby1640

gallery1753

1753 Scots Mag. 15 28/2 There are..strangers in our gallery.

1847 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Wks. (1906) I. 367 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention, and heard Mirabeau make a speech.

1897 Lucy in Daily News 9 Apr. 7/2 News reached the Press Gallery to-night of the death of Mr. Doyle, one of the oldest members of the Press Gallery.

e. The part of a Friends' meeting-house occupied by the ministers or elders; gallery Friend, a Quaker minister or elder.

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1802 W. Matthews Recorder I. 121 The galleries of London.

1913 Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. Jan. 2 Jane Wigham.., the second wife of John Wigham, Tertius, was also a gallery Friend.

1921 R. M. Jones Later Periods Quakerism I. 58 The phrases so characteristic of Molinos, Guyon, Fénelon..were heard everywhere in Quaker ‘galleries’.

4. transferred.

a. The assemblage of persons who occupy the gallery portion of a theatre, the ‘gods’; formerly often in plural. Hence figurative the less refined or instructed portion of the public. to play the gallery: to act the part of gallery-spectators. to play to (also for) the gallery: to address oneself to those in the gallery (also figurative).

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > theatre audience > occupants of specific seat or place > collectively

gallery1649

box1677

side-box1685

gods1752

stall1901

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look on or spectate

to look onOE

to look upona1470

to keep the ring1798

to play the gallery1870

spectate1929

the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > address someone [verb (intransitive)] > address the gallery

to play to (also for) the gallery1872

1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 77 He should have wove in one, two Comedies; The first for th' Gallery..Th' other for the Gentlemen oth' Pit.

1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule Prol. 16 Nor bless the Gall'ries with the Sweets of Rhime.

1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers xxviii Kenney's ‘World’..Tires the sad gallery, lulls the listless pit.

1870 Echo 23 July 5/4 We were..constantly called in to ‘play the gallery’ to his witty remarks.

1872 Standard 23 Oct. 5/4 His dispatches were, indeed, too long and too swelling in phrase; for herein he was always ‘playing to the galleries’.

1878 H. Irving Stage 28 That same gallery which at first roared itself hoarse, while the play went on in dumb-show, became hushed in rapt admiration.

1890 Scotsman 18 Aug. He [Mr. Blaine] was playing for his Irish gallery.

1892 Law Times 92 156/1 We hope that..advocates will be courteous to judges, to opposing counsel, and to witnesses, and not play to the gallery.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 4/2 The ‘gallery’ will be most interested in the three couples [of golf players].

b. The body of persons who occupy a public gallery in a senatorial chamber.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > in gallery or grandstand > collectively

gallery1817

1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 568 He addressed himself principally to his friends on his right and left, and in so inaudible a voice that his remarks did not reach the gallery.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 383 The Solicitor spoke at great length and with great acrimony, and was often interrupted by the clamours and hisses of the audience..The galleries were furious.

1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) ix. 119 The mischief arose from suffering the galleries [of the French National Convention] to interfere with their plaudits or their hisses.

c. At écarté: the spectators who are betting on either player and are allowed to offer suggestions.

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1890 ‘Berkeley’ Écarté & Euchre 28 French Écarté. When several persons desire to join in a game of Écarté, it is generally arranged in the following manner. Two of the number sit down to play a game in the usual way,..and the remainder, called ‘The Gallery’, are allowed to take part in the game to the extent of betting on the player of their choice, and advising him, if necessary.

1897 R. F. Foster Compl. Hoyle 255 Any person in the gallery is allowed to draw attention to errors in the score, and may advise the player he is backing, or even play out the game for him.

d. A group of spectators at a golf match or other game or sport. Also transferred.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > at sport > collectively

gate1888

gallery1891

kop1966

1891 H. G. Hutchinson Hints on Golf (ed. 6) 71 If you rise to such heights of golfing powers as to attract a gallery.

1894 Strand Mag. 8 661/2 One can do very well without a gallery when one is trying a new experiment on ‘ski’.

1899 Captain II. 65/2 The gallery of white-robed spectators.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 4/2 It is virtually impossible for a player attended by a big ‘gallery’ to lose his ball.

1925 J. Buchan John Macnab iii. 59 Sir Archie was aware that his style of jumping was not graceful and he was discomposed by this sudden gallery.

1970 New Yorker 10 Oct. 183/1 The gallery had virtually won him the fourth set with a huge surge of support.

a. A long narrow apartment, sometimes serving as a means of access to other parts of a house; a corridor.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun]

alley1363

tresance1428

passagea1525

gallery1541

trance1545

through-passage1575

lobby1596

passageway?1606

conduit1624

gangway1702

vista1708

glidec1710

aisle1734

gallery1756

corridor1814

traverse1822

heck1825

rotunda1847

scutchell1847

zaguan1851

aisleway1868

pend1893

dogtrot1901

fairway1903

dog run1904

dog walk1938

walkout1947

coulisse1949

1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 210/1 I was brought afore my Lorde Cardinall into his galary, and there hee reade all myne articles.

1669 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 326 The roofe of the said building to conteine and be devided into five roomes or gallaryes.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 109. ⁋1 We were now arrived at the Upper~end of the Gallery, when the Knight faced towards one of the Pictures.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 305 Brother Cyprian, at the end of a long gallery, opened the door of a small apartment.

1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 95 A gallery communicating between his residence and the monastery.

b. A shooting-gallery (see shooting n. Compounds 2).

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1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. ii. 33 Some workman with whom her son had made some arrangement about shooting at the gallery.

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 779/3 Gallery Targets.

6. An apartment or building devoted to the exhibition of works of art. (See also quot. 1950.)

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > gallery

gallerya1616

cabinet1675

picture gallery1721

portrait gallery1780

picture house1838

art gallery1841

art museum1845

rogues' gallery1857

art house1882

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iii. 36 Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me, For in my Gallery thy Picture hangs.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 150 For a Crowd is not Company; And Faces are but a Gallery of Pictures..where there is no Loue.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 339 A Gallery in the suburbs of Naples, looking toward the West, which was richly furnished with many good pieces.

1782 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1842) xi. 198 In going through a gallery where there were many portraits of the last ages.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxi. 33 For I have been accustomed to entwine My thoughts with Nature rather in the fields, Than Art in galleries.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 177 Why need I galleries, when a pupil's draught After the master's sketch, fills and o'erfills My apprehension?

1883 Ld. Cairns in Standard 9 May 2/5 The galleries would not be kept open after six o'clock.

1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 12 Oct. 15/1 In general in the United States a ‘gallery’ is a place that shows paintings and sells them, a ‘museum’ is one that simply shows them.

a. Military and Mining. An underground passage, horizontal or nearly so; a level or drift.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel

crypt1583

burrow1615

gallery1630

syrinx1678

rock hole1738

cellarwaya1762

tunnel1765

heading1811

subpassage1822

subway1822

subway1831

underpass1904

1630 J. Prempart Hist. Relation Siege Busse 7 Counte Ernst..was advised by his Ingener..to make a great Gallerie directly vpon the Citie from the letter N.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cxxxix. 1–5 Paraphr.) 673 A man can no more escape or march undiscovered out of a city the most closely besieged, when the galleries are prepared.

1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) Galery,..also us'd for the Branch of a Mine, that is, a narrow Passage under Ground, leading to the Mine that is carry'd on under any Work design'd to be blown up.

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 249 The basalt reposed on clay, into which a gallery was worked without meeting the basalt.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. v. 34 Till he came at length into a narrow, dark, and damp gallery, that seemed cut from the living rock.

1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 175 The most ordinary dimensions of galleries [in mines] are a yard wide and two yards high.

1884 Manch. Examiner 22 Feb. 5/2 The air is carried along to the extremities of the workings in galleries constructed of canvas, technically known as brattice cloth.

b. Military. (See quot. 1704.) ?Obsolete.

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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Gallery, in Fortification, is a covered Walk, the Sides whereof are Musket-proof, consisting of a double Row of Planks lined with Plates of Iron..These Galleries are frequently made use of in the Moat already filled with Faggots and Bavins, to the end that the Miner may approach safe to the face of the Bastion, when the Artillery of the opposite Flank is dismounted.

1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) Galery, a Passage made across the Ditch of a Town besieg'd, with Timbers fastened on the Ground and plank'd over.

1716 London Gaz. No. 5476/1 The Heads of the Bridges, or Galleries, over the Ditch of the Palank, had been damaged.

†c. Military. A ‘lane’ or open space between ranks or bodies of men.

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1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 212 The spaces, intervalles, galeries and passages, which are amongst the ranks..do serue [etc.].

†a. A passage made by a deer, etc. through brushwood. cf. entry n. 12. Obsolete.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > habitually used by animals > by specific animals

gallery1674

goat track1775

goat path1799

goat's path1799

rat-run1870

cattle-trail1877

cattle-pad1931

1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 68 If you would know the height and thickness of the Hart, observe his Entries and Galleries into the Thickets, and what Boughs he hath over-stridden.

b. A passage made by an animal underground, or through a rock.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel > made by an animal

gallery1867

1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) iii. 40 The..galleries made by Crustaceans.

9. Real Tennis. (See quot. 1878¹.) winning-gallery (see winning n.¹ Compounds).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court > parts of

hazard1583

nicka1672

penthousea1672

gallery1699

grille1700

dedans1706

tambour1706

gallery-post1878

pass court1878

pass line1878

winning-gallery1878

winning opening1878

wing-neta1884

1699 A. Boyer Compl. French-master (ed. 2) iv. 75 J'ay mis sa Balle dans le petit trou, ou dans la Galerie. I put his Ball into the Hazard, or the Gallery.

1829 London Encycl. in Blaine's Rural Sports (1840) 133 Upon the entrance of a tennis court there is a long gallery which goes to the dedans, that is, a kind of front gallery, into which, whenever a ball is struck, it tells for a certain stroke. This long gallery is divided into different compartments or galleries, each of which has its particular name.

1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 157 Galleries, the openings beneath the side-pent~house, including the first, second, and last galleries, the door, and the line-opening, on each side of the net.

1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 183 Every ball which either falls short or enters a gallery (except always the winning-gallery) counts for nothing.

10. An ornamental parapet or railing running along the edge of a table, shelf, or the like.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > ornamental parts

boll1651

gallery1853

split baluster1904

cresting1908

trim1922

1853 Cabinet-maker's Assistant ii. 35 Writing Tables..The centre shelf should be hinged at the back... The gallery may either be of fret-work or of bronze.

11. In a lamp: A bevelled ring for supporting a globe or shade.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

gallery-walks n.

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1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 87 Sightcourts, galerywalkes, and new churches, the more reuerentlie I fynde faulte with, for Pompeius sake.

b. (In senses 2, 3.)

gallery-stairs n.

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1616 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 435 The king..stood on the gallery stairs at Whitehall to see the prince come along from Richmond.

1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 Oct. 226/2 The gallery-stairs of a theatre.

c. (In sense 3b.)

gallery-critic n.

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1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 365 Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

gallery-door n.

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1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 127 For a holowe key for the galary dore of the same Wardrobe viij d.

gallery-keeper n.

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a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1645 190 Thirty pounds given to the Gallery-keepers at St. Margarets Church.

d. (In senses 3c, 2d.)

gallery boy n.

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1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 3 Feb. 1/4 The gallery boys stood up and again and again clapped their hands.

1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson ii. 15 All the gallery-boys..were scornful of the sweethearts wedged between them.

gallery girl n.

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1927 E. Wallace Feathered Serpent xiii. 169 You'll probably be pulled up by gallery girls who want autographs.

gallery god n.

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1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists vi. 283 Does he..appeal to the gallery gods with claptraps and vulgar baits to catch applause?

gallery goddess n.

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1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 79 Each one shilling God within reach of a nod is, And plain are the charms of each Gallery Goddess.

gallery-man n. (also twopenny gallery-man)

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > in gallery or grandstand

gallery-man1607

grandstander1874

1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater Prol. sig. A2 I doe pronounce this, to the vtter discomfort of all two peny Gallerie men.

1897 Lucy in Daily News 9 Apr. 7/2 He was familiarly known to more than one generation of Gallery-men.

gallery queue n.

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1934 A. P. Herbert Holy Deadlock 143 Nobody in the gallery queue would have recognised their Mary Moon.

gallery ticket n.

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1789 Loiterer 18 Apr. 5 A woman who pawned her prayer book for a gallery ticket.

1833 R. Dyer Nine Years Actor's Life 137 His actors being..the companions of any who are likely to take a gallery ticket.

e. (In sense 6.)

gallery-attendant n.

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1895 M. H. Judge in M.H.J. & Lord's Day Act (1897) 30 So far as the actual gallery attendants are concerned.

gallery-exhibition n.

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1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 129 There is one disadvantage attached necessarily to gallery exhibition, namely, the extent of mischief which may be done by one foolish curator.

gallery-goer n.

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1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 May 5/2 There are several minor collections on show at the present time worth the attention of the gallery goer.

gallery-picture n.

gallery-trotter n.

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1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 5/1 A reminder to bewildered ‘gallery-trotters’ of the pictures they have seen in the various exhibitions of the season.

f. (In sense 7.)

gallery-case n.

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1851 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortif. 229 Making gabions, fascines, blind-frames, and gallery cases.

gallery-frame n.

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1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 179 The false frame..is a little shorter and wider than the gallery-frames.

C2.

gallery camera n. (see quot. 1968).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of

box camera1828

daguerreotype1839

view camera1851

pistolgraph1859

pinhole camera1861

panoramic camera1862

pantoscopic camera1865

pistolograph1866

pantoscope1879

detective camera1881

filmograph1881

photographometera1884

photochronograph1887

snap-shooter1890

stand camera1890

tele-objective camera1891

film camera1893

magazine camera1893

panoram1893

telephoto1894

mutograph1897

tele-camera1899

telephote1903

press camera1912

reflex1922

candid camera1929

minicam1935

single-lens reflex1936

plate camera1937

magic eye1938

subminiature1947

miniature1952

all-sky camera1955

microfilmer1959

stereo-camera1959

streak camera1962

gallery camera1964

SLR1964

TLR1965

spy-camera1968

pinhole1976

multi-mode1981

digicam1989

point-and-shoot1991

1964 E. Chambers Camera & Process Work iv. 26 (caption) Elevation and plan of a gallery camera.

1968 Gloss. Terms Offset Lithogr. Printing (B.S.I.) 13 Gallery camera, a camera in which the photographic material is transported from the darkroom to the camera in a dark slide.

gallery forest n. = fringing forest at fringing adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > belt or line of trees

suitc1450

neck of the woods1780

droke1822

tree-line1893

fringing forest1903

gallery forest1920

tree-belt1962

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1920 A. H. Unwin W. Afr. Forests vii. 130 Hexalobus morepetalus... Grows to large tree in Gallery Forests—small in Savannah.

1937 Discovery Apr. 100/2 The savannah country, into which the gallery forests, with their accompanying forest-frequenting birds, shoot out long tongues—remnants of a once continuous forested area.

gallery-furnace n. (see quot.).

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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 136 Gallery-furnace, a retort-furnace used in the distillation of mercury.

gallery grave n. a tunnel-shaped megalithic tomb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > types of ancient or prehistoric

table tomb1738

well tomb1843

chamber tomb1850

passage grave1865

allée couverte1870

passage tomb1870

mastaba1882

tholos1885

beehive tomb1887

circle-tomb1889

shaft tomb1895

shaft-grave1910

pit-cave1921

gallery grave1937

dyss1938

1937 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 3 86 The brilliance of the Breton passage grave culture has long obscured the existence of gallery graves in Brittany.

1963 G. Daniel in Foster & Alcock Culture & Environment ii. 14 Suggesting that it was in the area from south Finistère to the Vendée were found the tombs most likely to be the prototypes of the Gallery Graves and Transepted Gallery Graves and Rectangular Chambers of south Wales.

gallery-hit n. a piece of showy play (primarily by a batter in cricket) intended to gain applause from uncritical spectators.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke

long ball1744

nip1752

catch1816

no-hit1827

cut1833

short hit1833

draw1836

drive1836

square hit1837

skylarker1839

skyer1840

skyscraper1842

back-cut1845

bum1845

leg sweep1846

slog1846

square cut1850

driver1851

Harrow drive1851

leg slip1852

poke1853

snick1857

snorter1859

leg stroke1860

smite1861

on-drive1862

bump ball1864

rocketer1864

pull1865

grass trimmer1867

late cut1867

off-drive1867

spoon1871

push1873

push stroke1873

smack1875

Harrow drive1877

pull-stroke1880

leg glance1883

gallery-hit1884

boundary-stroke1887

glide1888

sweep1888

boundary1896

hook1896

leg glide1896

backstroke1897

flick1897

hook stroke1897

cover-drive1898

straight drive1898

square drive1900

edger1905

pull-drive1905

slash1906

placing stroke1907

push drive1912

block shot1915

if-shot1920

placing shot1921

cow-shot1922

mow1925

Chinese cut1937

haymaker1954

hoick1954

perhapser1954

air shot1956

steepler1959

mishook1961

swish1963

chop-

1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. III. ii. 694/3 Gallery-hit.

gallery-hitting n.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of batting

blocking1637

quilting1822

defence1825

cutting1827

forward play1828

defensive1832

swiping1833

back-cutting1842

straight play1843

back play1844

sticking1873

leg play1877

off-driving1884

gallery-hitting1888

goose game1899

straight driving1904

stroke-play1905

pad play1906

on-driving1948

stroke-making1956

1888 W. G. Grace in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ix. 307 On such a wicket as this do not go in for lofty and ‘gallery’ hitting.

gallery-ladder n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Ladders The Gallery-Ladder, made of Ropes, and hung over the Galleries and Stern, for ent'ring by the Ship's Stern out of the Boat, when the Weather is foul.

gallery-play n. playing to the gallery (see sense 4a above); showy play designed to gain applause; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > showy action or performance

showmanship1822

showmanism1845

gallery-play1871

stunt1878

showmanry1886

fancy work1907

hot doggery1962

1871 F. Gale Echoes Cricket Fields v. 23 Frequent useless appeals to the umpire, a practice which Nyren condemned as being what we now call ‘gallery play’.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 7/2 A weak opposition, evidently disposed to indulge in ‘gallery’ play.

a1914 J. E. Raphael Mod. Rugby Football (1918) vi. 107 ‘Gallery play’ should only be resorted to as a last desperate resource.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 121 You've..done good work for your first show; don't spoil it with rank gallery play.

1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 21 In the Great War there was very little suspicion, or chance, of gallery play for the V.C.

gallery-post n. Real Tennis (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court > parts of

hazard1583

nicka1672

penthousea1672

gallery1699

grille1700

dedans1706

tambour1706

gallery-post1878

pass court1878

pass line1878

winning-gallery1878

winning opening1878

wing-neta1884

1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 157 Gallery-post, the post which separates a gallery from the gallery next beyond it.

gallery-practice n. indoor photography.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] > types or methods generally

microphotography1857

pistolgraphy1860

portrait photography1864

pistolography1866

photochronography1887

snap-work1889

gallery-practice1891

photoreproduction1892

telephotography1892

Kodakry1893

fuzzyism1894

mugging1899

action photography1905

press photography1910

trick photography1913

Kodachrome1915

panchromatism1919

photo reporting1935

photojournalism1938

photo-reportage1939

strobe1949

streak photography1950

satellite photography1954

digital photography1972

time-lapse1975

1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 168 The so-called professional, who has been trained in the routine of gallery practice.

gallery-road n. ‘an artificial roadway constructed on piles’ ( Cent. Dict.).

gallery-shot n. (cf. gallery-hit n.).

ΚΠ

1894 J. S. Farmer Slang Gallery shot.

1897 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 401 It is a gallery shot in a sense..for the bird is flying level.

gallery-stroke n. = gallery-shot n.

Derivatives

ˈgalleryful n. as much as a gallery will hold.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a building > specific parts

roomful1673

pitful1841

windowful1845

yardful1860

shop windowful1869

hall-full1883

galleryful1885

1885 Art Jrnl. 126/1 Where a work contains as much teaching as a whole galleryful its rightful place is by itself.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby ii. 93 A whole galleryful of fiddles.

ˈgalleryite n. one who occupies a seat in a gallery.

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1895 Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 8/2 Surely, the galleryites, or, rather, playgoers generally, are not infallible in their judgment?

gallery-like adj.

ΚΠ

1796 C. Smith Marchmont I. 259 The gallery-like passage that led to the stairs.

Draft additions 1993

The control room of a television studio.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > studio > control room

control box1878

gallery1960

1960 D. Davis Grammar of Television Production 59 Control room (Gallery), the room from which the director governs and controls the rehearsals and performance.

1982 A. Road Doctor Who: Making of TV Series 13/1 Peter Moffatt prefers to preside from the gallery, where he can see from the bank of monitors before him the alternative pictures available at any moment.

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单词	gallery
释义	galleryn. Brit. /ˈɡal(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɡæl(ə)ri/ Forms: 1500s galary(e, 1500s–1600s gallerie, 1600s gallary, 1500s, 1700s galery, 1500s– gallery. Etymology: < French galerie = Spanish galeria, Portuguese galaria, Italian galleria = medieval Latin galeria, of unknown origin. 1. A covered space for walking in, partly open at the side, or having the roof supported by pillars; a piazza, portico, colonnade. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory > portico or arcade alurec1325 alley1363 gallerya1500 aluring1501 cloisterc1540 pawn1548 stoa1603 portico1607 row1610 porticus1617 corridor1620 piazza1642 xystus1664 arcade1731 veranda1873 a1500 Assembly Ladies 165 The galeryes right wonder wel y-wrought. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 67 To be edifyit..with tavernis and galaris [L. porticus], to sauf thaim fra somer schouris, or fra fervant hetis of the sone. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxvii. 358 Chrysippus, who was saide to proppe vppe the gallerie of the Stoickes. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 496 This image of hers was set vp in the great gallery or publick walking-place of Metellus. 1648 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 260 The rebuilding of y^e Gallery in y^e fellowes orchard. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 87 The vestry leads to the gallery or cloisters of the convent. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 729 There is in the gallery of the Tuilleries, on the right as you enter the gardens, an Ionic column. 2. a. A long, narrow platform or balcony, constructed on the outside of a building, at some elevation from the ground, and open in front except as having a balustrade or railing. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > balcony gallery1509 balcony1618 balcon1635 pergolaa1641 gazebo1843 mashrabiyya1850 basket-balcony1866 balconette1876 sun deck1876 1509 J. Fisher Serm. Henry VIJ (de Worde) sig. Avij His walles & galaryes of grete pleasure. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 65/1 Hee came foorth of his chamber, and yet not down vnto them, but stode aboue in a galarye ouer them. 1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 57 The Lady is in the gallerie ouer her garden, taking the fresh aire of the coole night. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xlii. 3 Ouer against the pauement which was for the vtter court, was gallerie against gallery in three stories. View more context for this quotation 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 342 The first House has a large Court before it and open Gallerys all round it... This Gallery leads to all the chambers. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §24 The lantern for the lights, surrounded by a gallery or balcony. 1842 C. Dickens Let. 1 May (1974) III. 229 A wide, handsome gallery, outside every story. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 93 We lounged lazily in the wooden gallery, smoking our pipes. 1894 Daily News 26 Mar. 5/4 Our old coaching inns, with their roomy yards and railed galleries. b. A similar passage on the roof of a house. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > balustraded platform round roof gallery1535 machicoulis gallery1834 widow's walk1920 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vi. 10 He buylded a galery also aboue vpon the whole house fyue cubytes hye. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xxxii, in Poems (new ed.) 78 Round the roofs ran gilded galleries That gave large view to distant lands. c. Architecture. A long narrow passage either made in the thickness of a wall, or supported on corbels, having its open side towards the interior of a building, and serving both for ornament and as a means of communication. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] alley1363 tresance1428 passagea1525 gallery1541 trance1545 through-passage1575 lobby1596 passageway?1606 conduit1624 gangway1702 vista1708 glidec1710 aisle1734 gallery1756 corridor1814 traverse1822 heck1825 rotunda1847 scutchell1847 zaguan1851 aisleway1868 pend1893 dogtrot1901 fairway1903 dog run1904 dog walk1938 walkout1947 coulisse1949 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 319 A gallery which leads round the inside near the roof, from whence the church makes a beautiful appearance. d. Nautical. A balcony built outside the body of a ship, at the stern ( stern-gallery), or at the quarters ( quarter-gallery). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > balcony or gallery at stern or quarter gallery1627 balcony1666 quarter-gallery1740 stern-gallery1842 stern-walk1867 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 11 The Brackets are little carued knees to support the Galleries. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1393/1 During which time, our Quarter took fire, and burnt the Gallery, but we happily quencht it. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 313 As to her Quarter, the Carpenters made her a neat little Gallery on either Side. 1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 41 A soldier..having broken the upper quarter-gallery window, I jumped in. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 37 From her poop and galleries, the enemy sorely annoyed..the British. 1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles i. 14 They lay under the stern gallery of the frigate. †e. Aeronautics. An enclosed platform attached to a balloon to carry passengers. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > basket or car basket1783 car1783 gallery1784 nacelle1853 boat car1877 gondola1896 1784 London Chron. LVI. 1/3 Yesterday..an air balloon..was let off at Versailles... There was a large gallery fixed to it, in which were M. Charles, M. James, M. Montgolfier, and an Officer of the army. 1905 G. Bacon Balloons ii. 28 Instead of a gallery to carry the passengers, as in the ‘Montgolfier’, a car shaped like a boat was suspended from the net. 3. A platform, supported by columns or brackets, projecting from the interior wall of a building, and serving e.g. to provide additional room for an audience. a. gen. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > interior gallery loft1504 gallery1715 1715 S. Sewall Diary 4 Feb. (1973) II. 785 Mr. Hiller read it, out of the Council-Chamber Gallery. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. iii. 36 The library..a large Gothic room, with double arches and a gallery . View more context for this quotation 1854 Willis in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 168 The proposed Museum..has a gallery running round. b. In churches. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > gallery > [noun] loft1504 gallery1630 tribune1865 1630 J. Taylor Wks. iii. 56/2 And twenty pound he gaue to build a Gallerie in the same Church. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xiv. 103 As for out-lodgings (like galleries, necessary evils in populous Churches) he rather tolerates then approves them. 1690 S. Sewall Diary 11 Sept. (1973) I. 266 Having also found that sitting so near the out-side of the House [sc. the meeting-house] causeth me in Winter-time to take cold in my head, I removed into Gallery. 1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 38 If the Church-wardens would..make a new Gallery, or add anything else to the Church. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xix. 494 My voice was heard distinctly in every part of the building, up to the western gallery. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 54 In churches of the same kind, however, we find the groined vault used to carry a gallery in the aisles. c. In a theatre. Now spec. the highest of such projecting platforms, containing the cheapest seats. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > gallery gallery1690 sky-parlour1747 amphitheatre1859 paradise1864 peanut gallery1876 nigger heaven1878 1690 J. Crowne Eng. Frier iv. 32 I am..Governour o' the eighteen-penny Gallery i' the Play-house. a1704 T. Brown 1st Satyr Persius Imitated in Wks. (1707) I. i. 75 I, who never pass'd as yet The Test of the mis-judging Pit, Nor ith' Galleries tickl'd Crowd. 1816 Times 25 Jan. In what part of the theatre was the one-shilling gallery? 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiv. 227 A couple of people who were cracking nuts in the gallery. d. In a senatorial chamber. Also members'-gallery, press-gallery, strangers'-gallery.ladies' gallery: see lady n. Compounds 3b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > place of meeting > parts of bar1583 lobby1640 gallery1753 1753 Scots Mag. 15 28/2 There are..strangers in our gallery. 1847 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Wks. (1906) I. 367 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention, and heard Mirabeau make a speech. 1897 Lucy in Daily News 9 Apr. 7/2 News reached the Press Gallery to-night of the death of Mr. Doyle, one of the oldest members of the Press Gallery. e. The part of a Friends' meeting-house occupied by the ministers or elders; gallery Friend, a Quaker minister or elder. ΚΠ 1802 W. Matthews Recorder I. 121 The galleries of London. 1913 Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. Jan. 2 Jane Wigham.., the second wife of John Wigham, Tertius, was also a gallery Friend. 1921 R. M. Jones Later Periods Quakerism I. 58 The phrases so characteristic of Molinos, Guyon, Fénelon..were heard everywhere in Quaker ‘galleries’. 4. transferred. a. The assemblage of persons who occupy the gallery portion of a theatre, the ‘gods’; formerly often in plural. Hence figurative the less refined or instructed portion of the public. to play the gallery: to act the part of gallery-spectators. to play to (also for) the gallery: to address oneself to those in the gallery (also figurative). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > theatre audience > occupants of specific seat or place > collectively gallery1649 box1677 side-box1685 gods1752 stall1901 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look on or spectate to look onOE to look upona1470 to keep the ring1798 to play the gallery1870 spectate1929 the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > address someone [verb (intransitive)] > address the gallery to play to (also for) the gallery1872 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 77 He should have wove in one, two Comedies; The first for th' Gallery..Th' other for the Gentlemen oth' Pit. 1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule Prol. 16 Nor bless the Gall'ries with the Sweets of Rhime. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers xxviii Kenney's ‘World’..Tires the sad gallery, lulls the listless pit. 1870 Echo 23 July 5/4 We were..constantly called in to ‘play the gallery’ to his witty remarks. 1872 Standard 23 Oct. 5/4 His dispatches were, indeed, too long and too swelling in phrase; for herein he was always ‘playing to the galleries’. 1878 H. Irving Stage 28 That same gallery which at first roared itself hoarse, while the play went on in dumb-show, became hushed in rapt admiration. 1890 Scotsman 18 Aug. He [Mr. Blaine] was playing for his Irish gallery. 1892 Law Times 92 156/1 We hope that..advocates will be courteous to judges, to opposing counsel, and to witnesses, and not play to the gallery. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 4/2 The ‘gallery’ will be most interested in the three couples [of golf players]. b. The body of persons who occupy a public gallery in a senatorial chamber. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > in gallery or grandstand > collectively gallery1817 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 568 He addressed himself principally to his friends on his right and left, and in so inaudible a voice that his remarks did not reach the gallery. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 383 The Solicitor spoke at great length and with great acrimony, and was often interrupted by the clamours and hisses of the audience..The galleries were furious. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) ix. 119 The mischief arose from suffering the galleries [of the French National Convention] to interfere with their plaudits or their hisses. c. At écarté: the spectators who are betting on either player and are allowed to offer suggestions. ΚΠ 1890 ‘Berkeley’ Écarté & Euchre 28 French Écarté. When several persons desire to join in a game of Écarté, it is generally arranged in the following manner. Two of the number sit down to play a game in the usual way,..and the remainder, called ‘The Gallery’, are allowed to take part in the game to the extent of betting on the player of their choice, and advising him, if necessary. 1897 R. F. Foster Compl. Hoyle 255 Any person in the gallery is allowed to draw attention to errors in the score, and may advise the player he is backing, or even play out the game for him. d. A group of spectators at a golf match or other game or sport. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > at sport > collectively gate1888 gallery1891 kop1966 1891 H. G. Hutchinson Hints on Golf (ed. 6) 71 If you rise to such heights of golfing powers as to attract a gallery. 1894 Strand Mag. 8 661/2 One can do very well without a gallery when one is trying a new experiment on ‘ski’. 1899 Captain II. 65/2 The gallery of white-robed spectators. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 4/2 It is virtually impossible for a player attended by a big ‘gallery’ to lose his ball. 1925 J. Buchan John Macnab iii. 59 Sir Archie was aware that his style of jumping was not graceful and he was discomposed by this sudden gallery. 1970 New Yorker 10 Oct. 183/1 The gallery had virtually won him the fourth set with a huge surge of support. 5. a. A long narrow apartment, sometimes serving as a means of access to other parts of a house; a corridor. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun] alley1363 tresance1428 passagea1525 gallery1541 trance1545 through-passage1575 lobby1596 passageway?1606 conduit1624 gangway1702 vista1708 glidec1710 aisle1734 gallery1756 corridor1814 traverse1822 heck1825 rotunda1847 scutchell1847 zaguan1851 aisleway1868 pend1893 dogtrot1901 fairway1903 dog run1904 dog walk1938 walkout1947 coulisse1949 1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 210/1 I was brought afore my Lorde Cardinall into his galary, and there hee reade all myne articles. 1669 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 326 The roofe of the said building to conteine and be devided into five roomes or gallaryes. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 109. ⁋1 We were now arrived at the Upper~end of the Gallery, when the Knight faced towards one of the Pictures. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 305 Brother Cyprian, at the end of a long gallery, opened the door of a small apartment. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 95 A gallery communicating between his residence and the monastery. b. A shooting-gallery (see shooting n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. ii. 33 Some workman with whom her son had made some arrangement about shooting at the gallery. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 779/3 Gallery Targets. 6. An apartment or building devoted to the exhibition of works of art. (See also quot. 1950.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > gallery gallerya1616 cabinet1675 picture gallery1721 portrait gallery1780 picture house1838 art gallery1841 art museum1845 rogues' gallery1857 art house1882 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iii. 36 Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me, For in my Gallery thy Picture hangs. View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 150 For a Crowd is not Company; And Faces are but a Gallery of Pictures..where there is no Loue. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 339 A Gallery in the suburbs of Naples, looking toward the West, which was richly furnished with many good pieces. 1782 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1842) xi. 198 In going through a gallery where there were many portraits of the last ages. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxi. 33 For I have been accustomed to entwine My thoughts with Nature rather in the fields, Than Art in galleries. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 177 Why need I galleries, when a pupil's draught After the master's sketch, fills and o'erfills My apprehension? 1883 Ld. Cairns in Standard 9 May 2/5 The galleries would not be kept open after six o'clock. 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 12 Oct. 15/1 In general in the United States a ‘gallery’ is a place that shows paintings and sells them, a ‘museum’ is one that simply shows them. 7. a. Military and Mining. An underground passage, horizontal or nearly so; a level or drift. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel crypt1583 burrow1615 gallery1630 syrinx1678 rock hole1738 cellarwaya1762 tunnel1765 heading1811 subpassage1822 subway1822 subway1831 underpass1904 1630 J. Prempart Hist. Relation Siege Busse 7 Counte Ernst..was advised by his Ingener..to make a great Gallerie directly vpon the Citie from the letter N. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cxxxix. 1–5 Paraphr.) 673 A man can no more escape or march undiscovered out of a city the most closely besieged, when the galleries are prepared. 1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) Galery,..also us'd for the Branch of a Mine, that is, a narrow Passage under Ground, leading to the Mine that is carry'd on under any Work design'd to be blown up. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 249 The basalt reposed on clay, into which a gallery was worked without meeting the basalt. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. v. 34 Till he came at length into a narrow, dark, and damp gallery, that seemed cut from the living rock. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 175 The most ordinary dimensions of galleries [in mines] are a yard wide and two yards high. 1884 Manch. Examiner 22 Feb. 5/2 The air is carried along to the extremities of the workings in galleries constructed of canvas, technically known as brattice cloth. b. Military. (See quot. 1704.) ?Obsolete. ΚΠ 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Gallery, in Fortification, is a covered Walk, the Sides whereof are Musket-proof, consisting of a double Row of Planks lined with Plates of Iron..These Galleries are frequently made use of in the Moat already filled with Faggots and Bavins, to the end that the Miner may approach safe to the face of the Bastion, when the Artillery of the opposite Flank is dismounted. 1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) Galery, a Passage made across the Ditch of a Town besieg'd, with Timbers fastened on the Ground and plank'd over. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5476/1 The Heads of the Bridges, or Galleries, over the Ditch of the Palank, had been damaged. †c. Military. A ‘lane’ or open space between ranks or bodies of men. ΚΠ 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 212 The spaces, intervalles, galeries and passages, which are amongst the ranks..do serue [etc.]. 8. †a. A passage made by a deer, etc. through brushwood. cf. entry n. 12. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > habitually used by animals > by specific animals gallery1674 goat track1775 goat path1799 goat's path1799 rat-run1870 cattle-trail1877 cattle-pad1931 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 68 If you would know the height and thickness of the Hart, observe his Entries and Galleries into the Thickets, and what Boughs he hath over-stridden. b. A passage made by an animal underground, or through a rock. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel > made by an animal gallery1867 1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) iii. 40 The..galleries made by Crustaceans. 9. Real Tennis. (See quot. 1878¹.) winning-gallery (see winning n.¹ Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court > parts of hazard1583 nicka1672 penthousea1672 gallery1699 grille1700 dedans1706 tambour1706 gallery-post1878 pass court1878 pass line1878 winning-gallery1878 winning opening1878 wing-neta1884 1699 A. Boyer Compl. French-master (ed. 2) iv. 75 J'ay mis sa Balle dans le petit trou, ou dans la Galerie. I put his Ball into the Hazard, or the Gallery. 1829 London Encycl. in Blaine's Rural Sports (1840) 133 Upon the entrance of a tennis court there is a long gallery which goes to the dedans, that is, a kind of front gallery, into which, whenever a ball is struck, it tells for a certain stroke. This long gallery is divided into different compartments or galleries, each of which has its particular name. 1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 157 Galleries, the openings beneath the side-pent~house, including the first, second, and last galleries, the door, and the line-opening, on each side of the net. 1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 183 Every ball which either falls short or enters a gallery (except always the winning-gallery) counts for nothing. 10. An ornamental parapet or railing running along the edge of a table, shelf, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > ornamental parts boll1651 gallery1853 split baluster1904 cresting1908 trim1922 1853 Cabinet-maker's Assistant ii. 35 Writing Tables..The centre shelf should be hinged at the back... The gallery may either be of fret-work or of bronze. 11. In a lamp: A bevelled ring for supporting a globe or shade. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) gallery-walks n. ΚΠ 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 87 Sightcourts, galerywalkes, and new churches, the more reuerentlie I fynde faulte with, for Pompeius sake. b. (In senses 2, 3.) gallery-stairs n. ΚΠ 1616 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 435 The king..stood on the gallery stairs at Whitehall to see the prince come along from Richmond. 1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 11 Oct. 226/2 The gallery-stairs of a theatre. c. (In sense 3b.) gallery-critic n. ΚΠ 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 365 Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. gallery-door n. ΚΠ 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 127 For a holowe key for the galary dore of the same Wardrobe viij d. gallery-keeper n. ΚΠ a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1645 190 Thirty pounds given to the Gallery-keepers at St. Margarets Church. d. (In senses 3c, 2d.) gallery boy n. ΚΠ 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 3 Feb. 1/4 The gallery boys stood up and again and again clapped their hands. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson ii. 15 All the gallery-boys..were scornful of the sweethearts wedged between them. gallery girl n. ΚΠ 1927 E. Wallace Feathered Serpent xiii. 169 You'll probably be pulled up by gallery girls who want autographs. gallery god n. ΚΠ 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists vi. 283 Does he..appeal to the gallery gods with claptraps and vulgar baits to catch applause? gallery goddess n. ΚΠ 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 79 Each one shilling God within reach of a nod is, And plain are the charms of each Gallery Goddess. gallery-man n. (also twopenny gallery-man) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > in gallery or grandstand gallery-man1607 grandstander1874 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater Prol. sig. A2 I doe pronounce this, to the vtter discomfort of all two peny Gallerie men. 1897 Lucy in Daily News 9 Apr. 7/2 He was familiarly known to more than one generation of Gallery-men. gallery queue n. ΚΠ 1934 A. P. Herbert Holy Deadlock 143 Nobody in the gallery queue would have recognised their Mary Moon. gallery ticket n. ΚΠ 1789 Loiterer 18 Apr. 5 A woman who pawned her prayer book for a gallery ticket. 1833 R. Dyer Nine Years Actor's Life 137 His actors being..the companions of any who are likely to take a gallery ticket. e. (In sense 6.) gallery-attendant n. ΚΠ 1895 M. H. Judge in M.H.J. & Lord's Day Act (1897) 30 So far as the actual gallery attendants are concerned. gallery-exhibition n. ΚΠ 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 129 There is one disadvantage attached necessarily to gallery exhibition, namely, the extent of mischief which may be done by one foolish curator. gallery-goer n. ΚΠ 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 May 5/2 There are several minor collections on show at the present time worth the attention of the gallery goer. gallery-picture n. gallery-trotter n. ΚΠ 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 5/1 A reminder to bewildered ‘gallery-trotters’ of the pictures they have seen in the various exhibitions of the season. f. (In sense 7.) gallery-case n. ΚΠ 1851 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortif. 229 Making gabions, fascines, blind-frames, and gallery cases. gallery-frame n. ΚΠ 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 179 The false frame..is a little shorter and wider than the gallery-frames. C2. gallery camera n. (see quot. 1968). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of box camera1828 daguerreotype1839 view camera1851 pistolgraph1859 pinhole camera1861 panoramic camera1862 pantoscopic camera1865 pistolograph1866 pantoscope1879 detective camera1881 filmograph1881 photographometera1884 photochronograph1887 snap-shooter1890 stand camera1890 tele-objective camera1891 film camera1893 magazine camera1893 panoram1893 telephoto1894 mutograph1897 tele-camera1899 telephote1903 press camera1912 reflex1922 candid camera1929 minicam1935 single-lens reflex1936 plate camera1937 magic eye1938 subminiature1947 miniature1952 all-sky camera1955 microfilmer1959 stereo-camera1959 streak camera1962 gallery camera1964 SLR1964 TLR1965 spy-camera1968 pinhole1976 multi-mode1981 digicam1989 point-and-shoot1991 1964 E. Chambers Camera & Process Work iv. 26 (caption) Elevation and plan of a gallery camera. 1968 Gloss. Terms Offset Lithogr. Printing (B.S.I.) 13 Gallery camera, a camera in which the photographic material is transported from the darkroom to the camera in a dark slide. gallery forest n. = fringing forest at fringing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > belt or line of trees suitc1450 neck of the woods1780 droke1822 tree-line1893 fringing forest1903 gallery forest1920 tree-belt1962 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1920 A. H. Unwin W. Afr. Forests vii. 130 Hexalobus morepetalus... Grows to large tree in Gallery Forests—small in Savannah. 1937 Discovery Apr. 100/2 The savannah country, into which the gallery forests, with their accompanying forest-frequenting birds, shoot out long tongues—remnants of a once continuous forested area. gallery-furnace n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 136 Gallery-furnace, a retort-furnace used in the distillation of mercury. gallery grave n. a tunnel-shaped megalithic tomb. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > types of ancient or prehistoric table tomb1738 well tomb1843 chamber tomb1850 passage grave1865 allée couverte1870 passage tomb1870 mastaba1882 tholos1885 beehive tomb1887 circle-tomb1889 shaft tomb1895 shaft-grave1910 pit-cave1921 gallery grave1937 dyss1938 1937 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 3 86 The brilliance of the Breton passage grave culture has long obscured the existence of gallery graves in Brittany. 1963 G. Daniel in Foster & Alcock Culture & Environment ii. 14 Suggesting that it was in the area from south Finistère to the Vendée were found the tombs most likely to be the prototypes of the Gallery Graves and Transepted Gallery Graves and Rectangular Chambers of south Wales. gallery-hit n. a piece of showy play (primarily by a batter in cricket) intended to gain applause from uncritical spectators. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke long ball1744 nip1752 catch1816 no-hit1827 cut1833 short hit1833 draw1836 drive1836 square hit1837 skylarker1839 skyer1840 skyscraper1842 back-cut1845 bum1845 leg sweep1846 slog1846 square cut1850 driver1851 Harrow drive1851 leg slip1852 poke1853 snick1857 snorter1859 leg stroke1860 smite1861 on-drive1862 bump ball1864 rocketer1864 pull1865 grass trimmer1867 late cut1867 off-drive1867 spoon1871 push1873 push stroke1873 smack1875 Harrow drive1877 pull-stroke1880 leg glance1883 gallery-hit1884 boundary-stroke1887 glide1888 sweep1888 boundary1896 hook1896 leg glide1896 backstroke1897 flick1897 hook stroke1897 cover-drive1898 straight drive1898 square drive1900 edger1905 pull-drive1905 slash1906 placing stroke1907 push drive1912 block shot1915 if-shot1920 placing shot1921 cow-shot1922 mow1925 Chinese cut1937 haymaker1954 hoick1954 perhapser1954 air shot1956 steepler1959 mishook1961 swish1963 chop- 1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. III. ii. 694/3 Gallery-hit. gallery-hitting n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of batting blocking1637 quilting1822 defence1825 cutting1827 forward play1828 defensive1832 swiping1833 back-cutting1842 straight play1843 back play1844 sticking1873 leg play1877 off-driving1884 gallery-hitting1888 goose game1899 straight driving1904 stroke-play1905 pad play1906 on-driving1948 stroke-making1956 1888 W. G. Grace in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ix. 307 On such a wicket as this do not go in for lofty and ‘gallery’ hitting. gallery-ladder n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Ladders The Gallery-Ladder, made of Ropes, and hung over the Galleries and Stern, for ent'ring by the Ship's Stern out of the Boat, when the Weather is foul. gallery-play n. playing to the gallery (see sense 4a above); showy play designed to gain applause; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > showy action or performance showmanship1822 showmanism1845 gallery-play1871 stunt1878 showmanry1886 fancy work1907 hot doggery1962 1871 F. Gale Echoes Cricket Fields v. 23 Frequent useless appeals to the umpire, a practice which Nyren condemned as being what we now call ‘gallery play’. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 7/2 A weak opposition, evidently disposed to indulge in ‘gallery’ play. a1914 J. E. Raphael Mod. Rugby Football (1918) vi. 107 ‘Gallery play’ should only be resorted to as a last desperate resource. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 121 You've..done good work for your first show; don't spoil it with rank gallery play. 1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 21 In the Great War there was very little suspicion, or chance, of gallery play for the V.C. gallery-post n. Real Tennis (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court > parts of hazard1583 nicka1672 penthousea1672 gallery1699 grille1700 dedans1706 tambour1706 gallery-post1878 pass court1878 pass line1878 winning-gallery1878 winning opening1878 wing-neta1884 1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 157 Gallery-post, the post which separates a gallery from the gallery next beyond it. gallery-practice n. indoor photography. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun] > types or methods generally microphotography1857 pistolgraphy1860 portrait photography1864 pistolography1866 photochronography1887 snap-work1889 gallery-practice1891 photoreproduction1892 telephotography1892 Kodakry1893 fuzzyism1894 mugging1899 action photography1905 press photography1910 trick photography1913 Kodachrome1915 panchromatism1919 photo reporting1935 photojournalism1938 photo-reportage1939 strobe1949 streak photography1950 satellite photography1954 digital photography1972 time-lapse1975 1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 168 The so-called professional, who has been trained in the routine of gallery practice. gallery-road n. ‘an artificial roadway constructed on piles’ ( Cent. Dict.). gallery-shot n. (cf. gallery-hit n.). ΚΠ 1894 J. S. Farmer Slang Gallery shot. 1897 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 401 It is a gallery shot in a sense..for the bird is flying level. gallery-stroke n. = gallery-shot n. Derivatives ˈgalleryful n. as much as a gallery will hold. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a building > specific parts roomful1673 pitful1841 windowful1845 yardful1860 shop windowful1869 hall-full1883 galleryful1885 1885 Art Jrnl. 126/1 Where a work contains as much teaching as a whole galleryful its rightful place is by itself. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby ii. 93 A whole galleryful of fiddles. ˈgalleryite n. one who occupies a seat in a gallery. ΚΠ 1895 Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 8/2 Surely, the galleryites, or, rather, playgoers generally, are not infallible in their judgment? gallery-like adj. ΚΠ 1796 C. Smith Marchmont I. 259 The gallery-like passage that led to the stairs. Draft additions 1993 The control room of a television studio. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > [noun] > studio > control room control box1878 gallery1960 1960 D. Davis Grammar of Television Production 59 Control room (Gallery), the room from which the director governs and controls the rehearsals and performance. 1982 A. Road Doctor Who: Making of TV Series 13/1 Peter Moffatt prefers to preside from the gallery, where he can see from the bank of monitors before him the alternative pictures available at any moment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). galleryv. Brit. /ˈɡal(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɡæl(ə)ri/ Etymology: < gallery n. 1. a. transitive. To furnish with a balcony or gallery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with balcony or terrace platform1578 terrace1615 gallery1616 1616 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 138 Which [sum] I bestowd to have the Church of Tallagh galleried round about. 1616 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 139 Thomas Carter..delivered Mr. Langredg of my money v^li ster. to begyn the galleryng of the church at Tallagh. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Sept. 8/2 The Place Victor Emmanuel was galleried round with seats for 20,000 people. 1894 Speaker 12 May 524/2 The..benchers plastered it and pewed it and galleried it. b. Military. To make an underground passage. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > lay siege [verb (intransitive)] > dig approach trench or tunnel sap1598 gallery1807 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 273 Their mining arts the staunch besiegers ply, Delve from the bank of York, and gallery far, Deep subterranean, to the mount of war. 2. intransitive. nonce-use. To ‘take’ with, or appeal to, the audience in a theatre-gallery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > be approved or gain acceptance [verb (intransitive)] > in the theatre gallery1672 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [verb (intransitive)] > appeal to audience gallery1672 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. 3 It shall read..and act, and plot, and shew, ay, and pit, box and gallery, I gad, with any Play in Europe. 1831 T. B. Macaulay Moore's Life Byron The rants of Byron's rhyming plays would have pitted it, boxed it, and galleried it, with those of any Bayes or Bilboa. 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