gallery

• n. 回廊；回廊；ギャラリー；トンネル
• vt.に回廊を作る；...にトンネルを掘る。
• vi. トンネルを掘る
• n. （ギャラリー）人の名前；（英）ギャラリー

ラテン語のGalilaea、現在のパレスチナの地名Galileeに由来し、もともとはGalileeの教会のポーチ、回廊を指していた。

gallery

gallery: [15] The original meaning of gallery in English was ‘long roofed walk way along the wall of a building’; the present sense ‘room or building for the exhibition of paintings, sculpture, etc’ did not develop until the end of the 16th century. English borrowed the word from Old French galerie ‘portico’, which came via Italian galleria from medieval Latin galeria. This may have been an alteration of galilea (source of English galilee [16], as in galilee chapel), thought to have been applied to a porch or chapel at the far or western end of a church in allusion to the position of Galilee as the province of Palestine most distant from Jerusalem.

gallery (n.)

mid-15c., "covered walk or passageway, narrow and partly open passageway along a wall," from Old French galerie "a long portico" (14c.), from Medieval Latin galeria, of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of galilea "church porch," which is probably from Latin Galilaea "Galilee," the northernmost region of Palestine (see Galilee); church porches sometimes were so called, perhaps from being at the far end of the church:

Super altare Beat? Mari? in occidentali porte ejusdem ecclesi? qu? Galil? a vocatur. [c.1186 charter in "Durham Cathedral"]

Sense of "building to house art" first recorded 1590s. In reference to theaters, of the section with the highest, cheapest seats; hence "people who occupy a (theater) gallery" (contrasted with "gentlemen of the pit") first by Lovelace, 1640s, hence to play to the gallery (1867).

1. Laura landed a plum job with a smart art gallery .

ローラはファッションギャラリーで美差を見つけた。

2.Today his picture goes on show at the National Portrait Gallery .

今日、彼の絵が国立肖像美術館に展示されている。

3.He started working for a gallery sweeping up and Making the tea.

彼はギャラリーで掃除してお茶を入れる仕事を始めた。

4.They had been forced to find cheap tickets in the gallery .

彼らは最上階のビルの格安チケットを買わざるを得なかった。

5.Just a stone 's throw away is the City Art Gallery .

遠くないところに市美術館がある。