Question

I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to a weary-looking man. I found myself in a big hall girded at half its height by a gallery, surrounded by darkness in the greater part of the hall. Nearly all the stalls were closed. Based on the context clues, which word best defines the word gir

Answer 1

Answer:

D. encompassed

Explanation:

This is the excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby".

The word bazaar might also be confusing, so let's just say it's a kind of open market.

So, we have a boy who rushes into that market and finds him self in a hall around which is a gallery with lots of empty, closed stalls.

That can be enough to infer the meaning of the word "girded" which is "surrounded", "encompassed" or "encircled".