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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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"Whispering gallery" Quotes from Famous Books



... no vulgar form of deception possible on the lines, for instance, of the ancient priests of Pompeii who conducted a speaking-tube to an idol's mouth. Siva was not even standing by the wall, thus precluding the possibility of the sounds being conducted on the plan of a whispering gallery. No—I was, against my own will, forced to the absolute conviction that the voice was an hallucination of the ...
— A Master of Mysteries • L. T. Meade


Words linked to "Whispering gallery" :   whispering dome, dome


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