Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gallery occupied by singers, as in a church or cathedral: in New England often called the orchestra.
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Examples
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The light showed them to be close to the singing-gallery stairs, under which lay a heap of lumber of all sorts, but consisting mostly of decayed framework, pews, panels, and pieces of flooring, that from time to time had been removed from their original fixings in the body of the edifice and replaced by new.
Wessex Tales 2006
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There were inscriptions on the panels of the singing-gallery, telling of benefactions to the poor of Shepperton, with an involuted elegance of capitals and final flourishes which my alphabetic erudition traced with ever-new delight.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885
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There were inscriptions on the panels of the singing-gallery, telling of benefactions to the poor of Shepperton, with an involuted elegance of capitals and final flourishes which my alphabetic erudition traced with ever-new delight.
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884
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The light showed them to be close to the singing-gallery stairs, under which lay a heap of lumber of all sorts, but consisting mostly of decayed framework, pews, panels, and pieces of flooring, that from time to time had been removed from their original fixings in the body of the edifice and replaced by new.
Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884
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