(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.
Veranda
Definition:
(n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) Rates Six- to eight-hour stopover, double with veranda from £55, and £8.50 for each additional hour.
(3) A group called the Northwest Santa Tecla Ecological Defence Committee has filed a complaint with the environmental secretariat at the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Act (DR-Cafta) alleging that the Villa Veranda development could threaten local water supplies, biodiversity and quality of life for communities nearby.
(4) • From €130 a night, minimum stay two nights, nollur.is Brimnes Cabins, north Iceland Facebook Twitter Pinterest At the Brimnes Hotel estate, every oh-so-Nordic bungalow (sleeping four or seven) has a private veranda and outdoor hot tub facing lake Olafsfjardarvatn.
(5) From the veranda of his farmhouse on the outskirts of this isolated riverside settlement, Gilvan Onofre can hear the helicopters coming, their rotors slicing through the humid Amazon air.
(6) Amazingly I have found a veranda-installation company still giving away free patio heaters.
(7) It's owned by artists and the interiors are bohemian and homely rather than slick, with lots of ceramics, rugs and artworks, and a gorgeous shady veranda which runs the length of the house with views across the valley.
(8) And several other people were actually still living in their homes, even though they were perched right on the edge of the sand dunes, and they had to very hurriedly evacuate last night and remove all their things, and they’re now coming back this morning to a scene of complete devastation, really, of bits of timber and bits of veranda and bits of front window left on the top of the sand dune, and the rest of the house nowhere to be seen.
(9) That evening we sit out on the veranda for quite a long time, feeling relieved and listening to the blackbird singing on our chimney stack.
(10) Standing on Espirito Santo's shady veranda, Oscar Bollir, the farm manager, insists they do nothing wrong.
(11) Set among nearly 100 acres of forest, these five rooms, 10 miles from Paraty proper, range from luxurious lofts to simpler rooms with fireplaces and verandas looking out over the trees.
(12) Then we draw up to our ranch house, a whitewashed bungalow with a red tin roof and a wraparound veranda.
(13) The refugees, many with possessions piled on their heads, entered Uganda though the frontier district of Bundibugyo and had to sleep in school grounds under the stars or on shop verandas.
(14) Villa Veranda is a private island of calm in a country struggling with pollution and rampant urban crime.
(15) It's the end of the dry season in El Salvador , but behind the thick concrete wall that surrounds Villa Veranda – a gated community outside the capital – the grass is green and the water flows fast.
(16) Then there’s the hustle and bustle of human activity: women smoking fish or peddling food and bric-a-brac; half-naked children rowing their own boats or playing on the verandas of the wooden shacks; congregants in white garments, singing and dancing in impromptu churches on boats.
(17) The standard of the former American confederacy – the battle flag of a long-ago bloody, racial conflict between the states, and a more recent ideological conflict – stood waving deep in enemy territory, surrounded by modernity: in downtown Columbia, verandas and parlors long ago gave way to hipster clothing shops, to kayaking outfitters, to Starbucks.
(18) There are eight suites, some with a four-poster beds or a private veranda overlooking the garden-and-city view.
(19) Standing on his Cliffside veranda, I understand the draw.
(20) Oh, yes, the name lives up to its promise: from the wide front veranda, there is indeed a view of the pale-blue sea, glinting through palm trees.