| 单词 | to pit, box, and gallery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pit, box, and gallery † to pit, box, and gallery and variants: to appeal to or please all members of an audience at a theatre. Cf. pit n.1 10a, box n.2 16, gallery n. 3c. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. 3 It shall read..and act, and plot, and shew, ay, and pit, box and gallery, I gad, with any Play in Europe. 1708 W. King Art of Cookery 35 I doubt not but his Ale, Rasher, Grapes, Peaches, and shrivel'd Apples might Pit— Box— and Gallery-it well enough. 1732 Humours of Court Introd. p. vii I'll warrant it shall Pit, Box, and Gallery with any Play that has been acted this Season. 1831 T. B. Macaulay in Edinb. Rev. June 564 The rants of his rhyming plays would have pitted it, boxed it, and galleried it, with those of any Bayes or Bilboa. 1855 Househ. Words 21 Apr. 311/2 He..sought to pit, box, and gallery it by a tragedy called Cleone. < as lemmas |
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