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CORRIDOR (Fr. corridor, from Ital. corridore, Med. Lat. corridorium, a " running-place," from currere, to run)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 196 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CORRIDOR (Fr. corridor, from Ital. corridore, Med. Lat. corridorium, a " running-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.


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