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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A roofed passageway or indoor court usually containing a variety of shops or businesses.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Galeria.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An indoor area, or covered courtyard, containing shops.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a genus of Pyralidae

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, from Old Italian, from Medieval Latin, gallery, from variant of galilaea, galilee; see galilee.]

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