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ˈgreen-room
1. A room in a theatre provided for the accommodation of actors and actresses when not required on the stage, probably so called because it was originally painted green. transf. The players who frequent the green-room. Phr. to talk green-room: to talk theatrical gossip.
1701Cibber Love Makes Man iv. iv, I do know London pretty well, and the Side-box, Sir, and behind the Scenes; ay, and the Green-Room, and all the Girls and Women⁓Actresses there. 1736Fielding Pasquin i. Wks. 1882 X. 140 Sir, the Prompter and most of the players are drinking tea in the Green-room. 1809Malkin Gil Blas ii. viii. ⁋3 Characters..as eccentric as any bona roba of the green-room. 1820Byron Blues ii. 78 Sir, the green-room's in rapture. 1839Lever H. Lorrequer xvi, We talked ‘green-room’. 1885J. K. Jerome On the Stage 71 Where a green room was originally provided, it has been taken by the star or the manager, as his or her private room.
attrib.1809Malkin Gil Blas iii. x. ⁋4 Our green-room goddess. 1812Examiner 21 Sept. 602/2 Few Authors..would enter a green-room cabal. 1823W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 141 The colonel..is a green-room veteran, and has written for the London theatre. 1887Besant Kath. Regina xv, Actors' gossip and green-room whispers.
2. A room in a warehouse or factory for the reception of goods in a ‘green’ state, such as cloth fresh from the weaving factory, undried pottery, etc. (Cf. green-house 2.)
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