Possible Clues:

• Nautical passage
• Narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water
• There's a passage about Art Nouveau. It's unintelligible
• Sit around the painting back there in no broad sense
• Being narrow with traits
• Not abroad by sea
• Sound sounds pure
• Bering or Bosporus
• Not wide, and not crooked either, by the sound of it
• Bering --