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Gallery

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

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Amphitheater 76% connected

Alt. of Amphitheatre

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Amphitheatre 76% connected

An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

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Salon 76% connected

An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

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Audience 76% connected

The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

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Balcony 76% connected

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a wi…

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Corridor 76% connected

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

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Passageway 76% connected

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

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Porch 76% connected

A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting w…

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Room 76% connected

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Drift 92% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Heading 92% connected

of Head

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Veranda 92% connected

An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.

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