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Galleries

Gallery \Gal"ler*y\, n.; pl. Galleries. [F. galerie, It. galleria, fr. LL. galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. galerie a rejoicing, fr. galer to rejoice. Cf. Gallant, a.]

  1. A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

  2. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

  3. A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

  4. (Naut.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

  5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.

  6. (Mining) A working drift or level.

    Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.

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galleries

n. (plural of gallery English)

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Galleries (album)

Galleries is the debut album by The Visionaries, an American hip hop group composed of 2Mex, LMNO, KeyKool, DJ Rhettmatic, Lord Zen, and Dannu. The album's production is handled primarily by group members KeyKool & DJ Rhettmatic, with guest producers Evidence and JRocc. The song "Love (Hip-Hop)" was featured in the Warner Bros feature film Ocean's Twelve.

Usage examples of "galleries".

Moreover, the most moderate and firmest of its members, sent away on purpose, are on missions to the Assembly, at the palace, and in different quarters of Paris, while its galleries are crammed with villainous looking men, posted there to create an uproar, its deliberations being carried on under menaces of death.

To the women in the galleries, to the frequenters of the clubs, and to pikemen in the suburbs it is from now beyond any doubt proved that the aristocrats are habitual killers.

Sometimes only about twenty of the deputies will applaud or hoot with the galleries, and sometimes it is the entire Assembly which is insulted.

The insolence of the galleries goes so far that frequently almost the entire Assembly murmurs while they applaud.

Accordingly, for a long time, they do not attend at the clubs, nor are they seen in the galleries of the National Assembly.

The reading of this memorandum is often interrupted by hooting from the galleries, in spite of the president's orders.

This system is the direct government of the people by the people, with all that ensues, permanence of the section assemblies, club debates in public, uproar in the galleries, motions in the open air, mobs and manifestations in the streets.

It is the same class which filled the galleries in the Assembly with all sorts of characters, filling up the groups," and, during all this time it never did a stroke of work.

The galleries of the National Assembly have had as much to do with fostering the Revolution as the bayonets of patriots.

For, besides the madmen belonging to the Convention, they have against them the madmen in the galleries, and these likewise are September murderers.

In this gesticulating crowd, in the half-light of smoky lamps, amidst the uproar of the galleries, it is difficult to hear well what motion is put to vote.

It rises in a body, in spite of the vociferations in the galleries, descends the great staircase, and proceeds to the entrance of the Carrousel.

The galleries force the Convention to revoke its decree against the expulsion of the Bourbons.

Her footfalls raised a booming, hollow sound as she mounted the wooden stair to the galleries that ran the length of the palisade.

They passed the entrance to the lower tier of galleries, which by unwritten but rigid custom was reserved for merchants or house factors, and climbed to the next level, used only by the nobility.