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Long gallery is an architectural term given to a long, narrow room, often with a high ceiling. In British architecture, long galleries were popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.

 


`Within the big valves of the door--which were open and broken--we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery lit by many side windows.
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See also: Gallery, House, Hall, Architecture, Medieval

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