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galley

noun as in a ship

noun as in a kitchen

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If journalism is the first draft of history, documentary filmmaking is often an overdue, dog-eared galley proof with no cover art.

The galley kitchen has a countertop with seats, stainless appliances, and a glossy marble floor.

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He urges athletes to choose window seats in the middle of the aircraft, away from the most-trafficked areas—the front, where everyone enters, and the rear, near the galley and the lavatories.

On Christmas Eve, a radio station in Crescent City dedicated a show to them, said their names, “and when ‘Silent Night’ came on, there wasn’t a dry eye in the galley,” he said.

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After two years of mostly small exchanges — cookbook galleys, costume jewelry, a set of dinner plates with just the right heft — we brought home something that, improbably, shifted the cadence of our cooking.

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