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whispering gallery

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whispering gallery
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points
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Noun1.whispering gallerywhispering gallery - a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points
whispering dome
dome - a hemispherical roof
Translations
whispering gallery n → galleria acustica
whispering gallery n → galleria acustica


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Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a peep at the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the echo in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled view from his forehead.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The brooding stillness of the world seemed sensitive to the slightest sound, like a whispering gallery.
The Shadow Line by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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