Loge
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ləʊʒ/
- Rhymes: -əʊʒ
Origin
From French loge ("arbor, covered walk-way") from Frankish *laubja ("shelter"). Akin to Old High German. loub ("porch, gallery") (German Laube ("bower, arbor")), Old High German. loub ("leaf, foliage"), Old English lēaf ("leaf, foliage"). More at lobby, loggia, leaf.
Full definition of loge
Noun
loge
(plural loges)- A booth or stall.
- The lodge of a concierge.
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 70:About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.
- An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
- 2006, George Gmelch and J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball PeopleIn major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.
- An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
- 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.