proscenium-box love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stage-box; a box in the proscenium-arch.

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Examples

  • One of the illustrious patrons of the Museum Theatre, and occupant of the great proscenium-box, was a gentleman whose name has been mentioned in a previous history; that refined patron of the arts, and enlightened lover of music and the drama, the Most

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Her portrait gazed in portentously from the hall; her marble bust gleamed from a distant corner; and she herself, the most resplendent person present, sat in a chair of state placed like a proscenium-box, and critically observed the performance.

    Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • Night found him in the proscenium-box at the theater, beaming upon the audience, except when he turned vociferously to applaud Eleanor's exits and entrances.

    Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • They all stood up and, smiling up at the left-hand proscenium-box, saluted the British ambassador, Sir Francis Bertie, with long and enthusiastic applause.

    Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

  • Fancy them driving in an open carriage through the park, or entering a proscenium-box at the opera!

    Samuel Brohl and Company Victor Cherbuliez 1864

  • One of the illustrious patrons of the Museum Theatre, and occupant of the great proscenium-box, was a gentleman whose name has been mentioned in a previous history; that refined patron of the arts, and enlightened lover of music and the drama, the Most Noble the Marquis of Steyne.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • a miserable slave wearing her chains nightly in the left-hand proscenium-box.

    Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

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