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whispering gallery

–noun
a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.

Origin:
1690–1700
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whispering gallery

noun
a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points 
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