[Fr.: see LODGE sb.]
1. A booth, stall.
1749. Chesterf., Lett., 25 April, Misc. Wks. 1777, II. 357. The several loges are to be shops for toys, limonades, glaces, and other raffraichissemens.
2. A ‘box’ in a theater or opera-house.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ., I. 198. (The Rose) He told me, it was some poor Abbe in one of the upper loges.
1818. C. Clairmont, in Dowden, Life Shelley (1887), II. 192. I could not even perceive the faces of those who sat in the loge next to ours.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxix. George was out of the box in a moment, and he was even going to pay his respects to Rebecca in her loge.
1863. ‘Ouida,’ Held in Bondage (1870), 50. I did the grand tier deliberately, going from loge to loge.
