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See also:CORRIDOR (Fr. corridor, from Ital. corridore, Med. See also:Lat. corridorium, a " See also:running-See also:place," from currere, to run) , a See also:main passage in a large See also: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 See also:works of See also:art, whence comes the See also:term " picture See also:gallery " applied to many collections . The term " See also:corridor See also:carriage " is applied to the See also:modern See also:style of railway carriage in which a narrow passage connects the See also:separate compartments, the See also:object being to combine a certain degree of privacy for the traveller with See also:access from one compartment to another whilst the See also:train is in See also:motion . |
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