单词 | picture gallery |
释义 | > as lemmaspicture gallery picture gallery n. a place where pictures are exhibited, usually a building or room within a house, museum, etc.; a collection of pictures so exhibited; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > gallery gallerya1616 cabinet1675 picture gallery1721 portrait gallery1780 picture house1838 art gallery1841 art museum1845 rogues' gallery1857 art house1882 1721 G. Vertue Note Bks. (1930) I. 105 The Picture of Robt. Walker painter in the Picture Gallery. 1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes I. 178 [Wild geese are] willing to wait for the wooden devices which we have anchored in the shallow feeding-grounds, as a picture-gallery of their uncles, cousins, and sweet-hearts. 1941 F. Thompson Over to Candleford x. 152 One of these new fancy bazaars..was to be held in the picture gallery. 1991 Compute Sept. 90/2 It changes the Open Drawing dialog box to a picture gallery containing thumbnail bitmaps. < as lemmas |
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