See Also: quilled(medicine)
quilled(dictionary)

gallery (oh) and quilled (iou)


gallery (oh)



[C]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: galeria, perhaps from galilaea 'small room for praying in inside a church', probably from Galilaea 'Galilee', area in Palestine where Christ traveled and taught]
a) a large building where people can see famous pieces of Art
::an exhibition of African Art at the Hayward Gallery
::details of museums and Art galleries in the city
b) a small privately owned shop or studio where you can see and buy pieces of Art
a) an upper floor or balcony built on an inner wall of a hall, theatre, or church, from which people can watch a performance, discussion etc
::the public gallery in Congress
in the gallery
::We could only afford seats up in the gallery.
b) the gallery
the people sitting in a gallery
play to the gallery
to do or say something just because you think it will please people and make you popular
a level passage under the ground in a mine or cave
-see also press gallery , shooting gallery

quilled (iou)



quilled adjective. L16.
[from QUILL noun1 & verb: see -ED2, -ED1.]
Having or fitted with a quill or quills. L16.
Having the form of a quill or quills; spec. (of a lace edge etc.) formed into quills, goffered. E18.
b. Botany. (Of the florets of a composite flower) abnormally tubular instead of ligulate, as in certain horticultural varieties; (of a flower-head) having florets of this form. E19.