| 释义 |
ˈside-box, n.
[side n.1]
A box or enclosed seat at the side of a theatre.
1678Otway Friendship in Fasion v. i, The Side-Box at the Play-house. 1703Steele Tender Husb. i. i, You are only (when my wife goes to the play) to sit in a side box with pretty fellows. 1788H. Mackenzie in Trans. Soc. Edinb. (1790) II. 174 It is only the mob in the side-boxes who..can hear unmoved the sentiments of compassion, of generosity, or of virtue. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIV. 297/1 No less preposterous is the practice of continuing the side-boxes up to the proscenium.
attrib.1695Congreve Love for L. v. ii, Hang your side-box beaux! 1703Farquhar Inconstant i. ii, You have a good side-box face, a pretty impudent face. 1784Cowper Task ii. 624 Soon enough..T' ensure a side-box station at half price.
b. The occupants of a side-box.
1712–4Pope Rape Lock v. 14 Why bows the side-box from its inmost rows? a1732Gay Toilette Poems 1737 II. 80 Nor shall side-boxes watch my restless eye.
Hence side-box v., to gaze at from a side-box.
1689Shadwell Bury F. iii. i, [I will] never have my Eyes off you, while I Side-box you in the Play-house. |