Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gallery, apartment, or building in which pictures are hung up or exhibited.
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Examples
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She summarizes the scene as "a perambulating picture-gallery, illustrative of national variety in form and feature" (Letter Fourteenth).
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Finally, the picture-gallery opens with a series of weird and striking adventures and shows as a tail-piece, an idyllic scene of love and wedlock in halls before reeking with lust and blood.
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(Nevertheless, I found it very difficult to stifle my longing for revenge, and after tossing half the night in anxiety, I arose at dawn and, in the hope of mitigating my mental sufferings and of forgetting my wrongs, I took a walk through all the public arcades and) entered a picture-gallery, which contained a wonderful collection of pictures in various styles.
Satyricon 2007
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Then, we went to a dismal sort of farm-yard, by which a picture-gallery was approached.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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Some examples may stimulate thought. a Lord B.---- has a valuable picture-gallery; but is blind.
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But at that very instant, as I was telling my troubles to the winds, a white-haired old man entered the picture-gallery; his face was care-worn, and he seemed, I know not why, to give promise of something great, although he bestowed so little care upon his dress that it was easily apparent that he belonged to that class of literati which the wealthy hold in contempt.
Satyricon 2007
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There was a church to see, or a picture-gallery — there was a ride, or an opera.
Vanity Fair 2006
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It is too hot for Florence; besides they have not completed the picture-gallery, and my place smells of putty.
Burlesques 2006
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English company there; has seen every palace and picture-gallery from Madrid to Stockholm; speaks an abominable little jargon of half-a-dozen languages — and knows nothing — nothing.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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It is too hot for Florence; besides they have not completed the picture-gallery, and my place smells of putty.
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