CORRIDOR (Fr. corridor, from Ital. corridore, Med.

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• LAT

Lat. corridorium, a "

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• RUNNING

running-

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• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place," from currere, to run)  , a main passage in a large building, on which various apartments open . In public offices, prisons, workhouses, hospitals, &c., the corridors are usually of severe simplicity; but in mansions and palaces large corridors (galleries) are often adorned with works of art, whence comes the term " picture gallery " applied to many collections . The term " corridor carriage " is applied to the modern style of railway carriage in which a narrow passage connects the separate compartments, the object being to combine a certain degree of privacy for the traveller with access from one compartment to another whilst the train is in motion .