crush-roomn.
A room or hall in a theatre, opera-house, etc., in which the audience may promenade during the intervals of the entertainment.
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1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. iii. 135 The drawing-room..actually differed in nothing from the crush-room at the opera on a very crowded night.
1833 T. B. Macaulay Lett. 2 Aug. The crush-room of the opera at night.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxviii. 278 Writing delivered who knows how, in what crush rooms, quadrilles, bouquets, balls.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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