| 单词 | box-keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbox-keeper box-keeper n. †(a) the keeper of a poor box or charity box (obsolete); †(b) the keeper of the dice-box and dice at a gaming table (obsolete); (c) an attendant at the boxes in a theatre (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > player > keeper of dice-box box-keeper?1544 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > usher or usherette box-keeper1689 box-keeperess1825 ouvreuse1853 usherette1925 ?1544 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 270 Item paid to the box keper for his sellary by yere. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G4v I am no Drawer, Box-keeper, or Pandar, to bee priuie to their sports. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester 11 If you be not careful and vigilant, the Box-keeper shall score you up double or treble Boxes. 1689 Quakers Art of Courtship xiii. 146 The Gentleman privately clapt the Ticket-money into the Box-keeper's hand, and led them into the Eighteen-peny Gallery. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. iii. 94 She hears the Box-keepers, at an Opera call out—The Countess of Basset's Servants! ?1790 R. King New Cheats of London Exposed (new ed.) 16 It is impossible for strangers, that do not suspect the cheat, to discover it. These [dice] the box-keeper has commonly in readiness, to put forth on a sign given. 1893 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 478 They played into the hands of the promoted box-keepers and the plethoric acting managers. 2014 Eighteenth-cent. Ireland 29 116 They covet the best places in the theatre.., that is, the seats nearest to the viceregal box, and to this end they strive to influence the theatre's box-keeper. < as lemmas |
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