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- noun slang A
fashionable art gallery employee , usuallyfemale .
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Examples
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Overheard at the show: a youngish woman "gallerina" in mini-skirted business suit with high heels and information in hand about the work was shepherding an apparently potential buyer around.
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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Overheard at the show: a youngish woman "gallerina" in mini-skirted business suit with high heels and information in hand about the work was shepherding an apparently potential buyer around.
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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Overheard at the show: a youngish woman "gallerina" in mini-skirted business suit with high heels and information in hand about the work was shepherding an apparently potential buyer around.
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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According to gallerina Justine Try-Me, the viscous remains of boll weevils crunched underfoot as you approach the Hut in that sepulchral light resemble a C.S.I. Miami crime scene.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
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According to gallerina Justine Try-Me, the viscous remains of boll weevils crunched underfoot as you approach the Hut in that sepulchral light resemble a C.S.I. Miami crime scene.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
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After all, what gallerina in her right mind can go twenty minutes without a shot of hand-pressed crema?
Nicole Berrie: Through the Rabbit Hole - Jennifer Rubell's "Just Right" Exhibit Nicole Berrie 2010
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Fixing my eye away from them as if in deep contemplation of the work, I leaned into the conversation: gallerina to woman taping info into a purple Blackberry looked as if they were talking about one of the vitrines: "$600,000."
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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Fixing my eye away from them as if in deep contemplation of the work, I leaned into the conversation: gallerina to woman taping info into a purple Blackberry looked as if they were talking about one of the vitrines: "$600,000."
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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I sat staring at the booth across the way, where a gallerina was slowly lifting one heel and then the other out of a pair of platform heels.
Monica Westin: But Is It a Candy Convention? Monica Westin 2010
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After all, what gallerina in her right mind can go twenty minutes without a shot of hand-pressed crema?
Nicole Berrie: Through the Rabbit Hole - Jennifer Rubell's "Just Right" Exhibit Nicole Berrie 2010
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