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Glossary · L

Long gallery

A long room on the upper floor of an Elizabethan or Jacobean great house, running much of its length, for walking and exercise in bad weather and for showing portraits.

See also: Solar

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Lintel · Living hall · Loggia · Lombard band · Lotiform · Mandapa · Mansard · Maqsura