Loge
WordNet
noun
(1) Private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
"The royal box was empty"
(2) Balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine
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Etymology
From "arbor, covered walk-way" from Frankish *laubja "shelter". Akin to O.H.G. louba "porch, gallery" (German Laube "bower, arbor"), O.H.G. loub "leaf, foliage", lēaf "leaf, foliage". More at lobby, loggia, leaf
Noun
- A booth or stall.
- An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
- In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.
- An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
- Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.
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Etymology
, from Old Frankish *laubja. The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.