whispering gallery

noun

1. a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.

whispering gallery

noun

1. a gallery or dome with acoustic characteristics such that a sound made at one point is audible at distant points

Word History and Origins

Origin of whispering gallery¹

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

Bartiromo is, of course, just another gossipmonger and Newsball is his online whispering-gallery.

From The Daily Beast

The same tiles are used in the “Whispering Gallery” outside the restaurant.

From The Daily Beast

The keyboards are on the north side of the chancel, inside the organ case, and can be seen from the "whispering gallery."

From Project Gutenberg

But there is a still more wonderful whispering gallery than that.

From Project Gutenberg

Hard by, is a whispering gallery, and a kind of gallery, said to have been made for the diversion of the women and children.

From Project Gutenberg

Was it impossible, then, in this horrible whispering gallery of London, to have any privacy of the soul?

From Project Gutenberg

Above the gilt rails of the whispering gallery an inscription on a mosaic and gold ground has been placed.

From Project Gutenberg