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GALLERY

Volume 10 · 52 words · 1860 Edition

in Fortification, an underground passage, either cut through the soil or built of masonry. Galleries (reverse) or niches are sometimes constructed in the counterscarp of a ditch, so as to afford a flanking musketry fire. They are closed in front, and the men fire through loopholes.

in the Fine Arts, see EXHIBITION.