gallper.html - See: PLAY TO THE GALLERY.

gallper.html - See: TEN-GALLON HAT.

gallper.html - {n. phr.} Bitter joke(s) that make fun of a very serious matter, e.g. death, imprisonment, etc. * /When the criminal was led to the electric chair on Monday morning, he said, "Nice way to start the week, eh?"/

gallper.html - noun
(Business World) (Lifestyle and Leisure) In marketing and planning jargon, a collection of small shops under a single roof, either in an arcade or as concessions in a large store. Etymology: A direct borrowing from Italian galleria 'arcade'. History and Usage: Architects in English-speaking countries were first inspired by the idea of the Italian galleria in the sixties and began to design shopping arcades on the same model, but it was not until the early eighties that the word galleria suddenly came into vogue as a fashionable way of saying 'arcade'. The vogue was continued by the application of the term to shops-within-a-shop as well. Burton and Habitat intend to create a new format at Debenhams with the 'Galleria concept'--an integrated collection of highly-focused speciality stores under one roof. Yorkshire Post 23 May 1985, p.
4 The winning scheme...incorporated the inevitable 'galleria'. The Times 17 Feb. 1990, p.
10 Johnson took over eleven floors in an unremarkable glass tower at a suburban shopping center named The Galleria. Bryan Burrough & John Helyar Barbarians at the Gate (1990), p. 85

gallper.html - n.
1 sl. impudence.
2 asperity, rancour.
3 bitterness; anything bitter (gall and wormwood).
4 the bile of animals.
5 the gall-bladder and its contents.

gall-bladder the vessel storing bile after its secretion by the liver and before release into the intestine. [ON, corresp. to OE gealla, f. Gmc]

gallper.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a sore on the skin made by chafing.
2 a mental soreness or vexation. b a cause of this.
3 a place rubbed bare.

--v.

tr.
1 rub sore; injure by rubbing.
2 vex, annoy, humiliate.

gallingly adv. [ME f. LG or Du. galle, corresp. to OE gealla sore on a horse]