[Fr.: see note s.v. FOCUS sb.]
1. = FOCUS 4.
1878. A. M. Hamilton, Nervous Diseases, 157. But that when the softening follows typhus fever, puerperal, and other general diseases, the foyers will be multiple.
2. Originally, the green-room in French theatres; now usually, a large room in a theatre, concert-hall, etc., to which the audience may retire during the intervals of the performances.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 263. This model foyer is to have something of the Haymarket and something of the Adelphi.
1882. G. P. Lathrop, ‘A Clever Town Built by Quakers,’ in Harper’s Mag., LXIV. Feb., 327. Twice a year it is held in the foyer of the Academy of Music.
