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Corridor


CORRIDOR, noun The termination dor may perhaps be the Latin Tor, as in curator, cursitor. corridor signifies a runner; hence, a running, flowing, or long line.]

1. In architecture, a gallery or long aisle round a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other.

2. In fortification, the covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.