power wall

power wall
 n.— «The Scorseses do not have what is known in Washington as a power wall, a gallery of me-with-important-people photographs. Instead, in their living room, the art work and the memorabilia pay tribute to ancestry and the movies.» —“Launching Mr. Whitehouse” by Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Mar. 27, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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