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Whispering gallery   /wˈɪspərɪŋ gˈæləri/   Listen
Whispering gallery

noun
1.
A space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points.  Synonym: whispering dome.






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... me; rich and beggared, splendid and sullen, idle and busy London. I was floating on those waves of human being, in which the struggler must make for the shore, or sink. I was in the centre of that huge whispering gallery, where every sound of earth was echoed and re-echoed with new power; and where it was impossible to dream. My days were now spent in communication with the offices of government, and a large portion of my nights in carrying on those correspondences, which, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI. • Various



Words linked to "Whispering gallery" :   dome



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