单词 | gallery |
释义 | gallery n. (pl. -ies)   1. a room or building for showing works of art.   2. a balcony, esp. a platform projecting from the inner wall of a church, hall, etc., providing extra room for spectators etc. or reserved for musicians etc. (minstrels' gallery).   3. a the highest balcony in a theatre. b its occupants.   4. a a covered space for walking in, partly open at the side; a portico or colonnade. b a long narrow passage in the thickness of a wall or supported on corbels, open towards the interior of the building.   5. a long narrow room, passage, or corridor.   6. Mil. & Mining a horizontal underground passage.   7. a group of spectators at a golf-match etc. Phrases and idioms play to the gallery seek to win approval by appealing to popular taste. Derivatives galleried adj. Etymology: F galerie f. It. galleria f. med.L galeria |
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