A room or hall in a theater, opera-house, etc., in which the audience may promenade during the intervals of the entertainment.
1806. Surr, Winter in Lond. (ed. 3), III. 135. The drawing-room … actually differed in nothing from the crush-room at the opera on a very crowded night.
1833. Macaulay, Lett., 2 Aug. The crush-room of the opera at night.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. 278.
