(a.) 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.
(a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
(a.) A working drift or level.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(3) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(4) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(5) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(6) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
(7) When the vote came, she and the other gun law advocates who crowded into the public gallery had been told not to talk, stand or take notes.
(8) The National Heritage Memorial Fund found a further £10m and the National Galleries of Scotland £4.6m, with £2m from the Monument Trust and £1m from the Art Fund, while members of the public and private donors gave another £7.4m.
(9) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
(10) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
(11) Murray said through the gallery that he would have no comment on the ANC's response.
(12) He said ANC lawyers would go to court to force the Goodman gallery in Johannesburg to remove a painting of the president, Jacob Zuma, from the exhibition and from its website .
(13) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
(14) In 1850 you could see Benjamin West’s ever popular vision of the apocalypse, Death on a Pale Horse , riding melodramatically back into view on Broadway for the fourth time in as many years; and a gallery of Rembrandts at Niblo’s theatre, where Charles Blondin once walked a tightrope.
(15) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
(16) And what's to stop it happening to a national museum or gallery?
(17) As a nod to the me-centred world we live in, the exhibition will also feature the responses to an altogether more contemporary Mass Observation directive from 2012, intriguingly entitled Photography and You , which was specially commissioned for the Photographers' Gallery show.
(18) And those of us who will go on watching men play are happy that it now offers a gallery of negative role models – Evans, Mackay, Whelan and Terry among them – from which those who follow them into the game can learn behaviours to avoid.
(19) There are smart restaurants, art galleries and designer clothes shops, among them Moschino and Dolce & Gabbana.
(20) The Web Gallery of Art, a database of European fine art, said Flowers was the only Porpora work that is signed and was painted in about 1660.
Oriel
Definition:
(n.) A gallery for minstrels.
(n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.
(n.) A bay window. See Bay window.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters demand the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue from the front of Oriel College, Oxford.
(2) Casting a wide net, the diplomats targeted banks that advise the companies as well as City firms that provide stockbroking services or write research notes about the five, a list that includes Panmure Gordon and Oriel Securities.
(3) Oriel Securities analyst Jonathan Pritchard described Tesco's results as "distinctly non-vintage" but welcomed Clarke's frankness: "The rhetoric surrounding the UK is the polar opposite of the former regime's."
(4) Once again, we see the Tory government stating high aims on equality while at the same time implementing policies which only serve to embed and entrench inequality.” Dalia Gebrial, a member of Rhodes Must Fall Oxford – the student group that has been campaigning for the removal of the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes from Oxford’s Oriel college, said the fact that the prime minister had recognised the disparity in higher education should be welcomed.
(5) In short, there was a choice to make, and Oxford and Oriel made theirs.
(6) There are many more urgent targets than Rhodes’s Oriel statue.
(7) Whatever I thought about the content, at least I left knowing what an oriel window and who Giotto was.
(8) "This provides further evidence that the winners this Christmas have been those brands with the ability to fulfil the UK's demand to treat itself on special occasions," said Oriel Securities analyst Jonathan Pritchard.
(9) Mike Trippitt, an analyst at Oriel, cut his rating to "reduce" from "buy".
(10) Hands has a doctorate from Oxford University and began by teaching 19th-century literature to undergraduates at Oriel College.
(11) They don’t think about it as something that manifests itself in everyday life at institutions like Oxford.” The campaign has gained over 2,500 followers on Facebook and students have protested outside Oriel College, where a statue of Cecil Rhodes stands.
(12) Oriel College, Oxford, has decided to keep its statue of Cecil Rhodes, despite the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, a protest that has been one of a kind on this side of the Atlantic.
(13) 01204 852 113 , thewellbeingfarm.co.uk Forge Fieldcraft, Pembrokeshire With an emphasis on living off the land, Mark Oriel runs a course in country living skills, including lessons in hunting and field butchery.
(14) Financial analysts at Oriel Securities The final outcome on Basel III determined by regulators over the weekend looks positive for UK banks.
(15) Oxford university donations that still court controversy | Letters Read more Today Oriel is under pressure from British-based supporters of the anti-Rhodes campaign in southern Africa.
(16) The first of these battles led swiftly to victory, with the removal of the large statue of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town a month after the campaign began; the latest, to frustration, given Oxford University’s resistance to doing the same with the statue of Rhodes at Oriel College, where it still stands, on the facade of a building bearing his name, as an acknowledgement of the £100,000 he left the college in his will.
(17) Why, for that matter, were we unaware of Rhodes above the gate to Oriel?
(18) Why did Powell seem so irrelevant when I saw him at Oriel more than a quarter-century ago?
(19) Neither I nor my wife, who was once a graduate student at Oriel, could recall the existence of a Rhodes statue at Oxford (though she vividly remembered a large portrait of Rhodes glowering down on students inside the college) – a reminder that imperial legacies are not necessarily less pernicious because they may be less obviously visible.
(20) Oriel College has said it will not remove the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University despite a campaign by students who believe the British imperialist’s legacy should not be celebrated.