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▪ I. † loge1 Obs. Cant. [? Short for horologe.] A watch.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Loge, a Watch. I suppose from the French Horloge. 1725in New Cant. Dict. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue s.v., He filed a cloy of a loge,..he picked a pocket of a watch. ▪ II. ‖ loge2|ləʊʒ| [Fr.: see lodge n.] 1. a. A booth, stall.
1749Chesterfield Let. 25 Apr., Misc. Wks. 1777 II. 357 The several loges are to be shops for toys, limonades, glaces, and other raffraichissemens. b. A concierge's lodge.
1969Guardian 2 Aug. 3/7 The tiny loges, ill-lit and ill-ventilated, in which too many concierges are condemned to live. 1972R. Mayne Europeans v. 72 The views of the man in the street, or the woman in the concierge's loge. 2. A ‘box’ in a theatre or opera-house.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. I. 198 (The Rose) He told me, it was some poor Abbe in one of the upper loges. 1818C. Clairmont in Dowden Life Shelley (1887) II. 192, I could not even perceive the faces of those who sat in the loge next to ours. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxix, George was out of the box in a moment, and he was even going to pay his respects to Rebecca in her loge. 1863Ouida Held in Bondage (1870) 50, I did the grand tier deliberately, going from loge to loge. 1900Ade More Fables (1902) 188 When he was in a Loge at the Play-House with Exclusive Ethel and her Friends. 1904A. Bennett Great Man xxiv. 260 They occupied a ‘loge’ in the..Folies-Bergère. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 24 (Advt.), Loges $5.00. 1974Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 13 Oct. C2/2 The goal..is to keep the building occupied at least 300 nights a year. Naturally, it won't be completely finished for the Sinatra opener. The loges won't be ready. |