'Galleria' usage

Factual Questions
1

There’s a chain of jewelry stores called ‘Jared – The Galleria of Jewelry’. Is ‘galleria’ being used properly here?

By definition, a galleria is ‘a roofed passageway or indoor court usually containing a variety of shops or businesses.’ While Jared does have a roof, I wouldn’t call it a ‘passageway’. And it’s one business; not a ‘variety of shops’ or ‘a variety of businesses’.

Shouldn’t they be ‘The Gallery of Jewelry’; as in ‘a building, an institution, or a room for the exhibition of artistic work’ or ‘an establishment that displays and sells works of art.’?

2

It’s just a fake usage, like “Ye Olde … Shoppe.” They’re trying to seem classy of European.

3

My GF and I so “Jared’s Galleria” the other day. She theorized that the “galleria” part was intentionally high-falutin’, so as to detract from the redneck nature of the name “Jared.” Seriously, who names their diamond store “Jared’s”?

4

Yeah, what a dumb goofus this Jared is. Seriously, who’d want to be compared to him?

5

snerk

That crossed my mind, too…

6

I dunno… Bubba’s Baubles has a bit of a ring to it.

7

Signet Group Plc, the London-based company that owns the chain, as well as other businesses including Kay Jewelers.

8

The Jared you linked to is “Jared Diamond” and has no affiliation with Jared’s Galleria of Jewelry.
:rolleyes:

9

Ooh! I get to do it!
WHOOSH!!!

10

So galleria is a real word?! I always thought it was a proper noun, just the name of a company that builds shopping malls.