whispering gallery

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whispering gallery

(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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Noun

whispering 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

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