long gallery

noun

1. a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.

Example Sentences

His “Interior, the Long Gallery at Sutton Place,” a study of the reds and browns of a 16th-century mansion in Surrey was painted more than two decades earlier, but exhibits the same effect.

From New York Times

A number of pictures from the exhibition Seen to be Heard will be used at Stormont's long gallery where the women will also present their manifesto to MLAs later on Wednesday.

From BBC

The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which the bedroom doors opened looked as if they belonged to a church rather than a house.

From Literature

More recently Norsworthy had two solo shows of his artwork run concurrently at Long Gallery Harlem and Project for Empty Space in Newark, N.J.

From New York Times

The pieces in the Long Gallery exhibition “Interior Dialogue” were exquisitely rendered tondos, round mounds of fabric printed with complexly colored images of decorative vases that floated within decorative backgrounds.

From New York Times