▪ I. † loge1 Obs. Cant.
[? Short for horologe.]
A watch.
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Loge, a Watch. I suppose from the French Horloge. 1725 in New Cant. Dict. 1785 Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue s.v., He filed a cloy of a loge,..he picked a pocket of a watch. |
▪ II. ‖ loge2
(ləʊʒ)
[Fr.: see lodge n.]
1. a. A booth, stall.
| 1749 Chesterfield Let. 25 Apr., Misc. Wks. 1777 II. 357 The several loges are to be shops for toys, limonades, glaces, and other raffraichissemens. |
b. A concierge's lodge.
| 1969 Guardian 2 Aug. 3/7 The tiny loges, ill-lit and ill-ventilated, in which too many concierges are condemned to live. 1972 R. Mayne Europeans v. 72 The views of the man in the street, or the woman in the concierge's loge. |
2. A ‘box’ in a theatre 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. 1900 Ade More Fables (1902) 188 When he was in a Loge at the Play-House with Exclusive Ethel and her Friends. 1904 A. Bennett Great Man xxiv. 260 They occupied a ‘loge’ in the..Folies-Bergère. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 24 (Advt.), Loges $5.00. 1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 13 Oct. C2/2 The goal..is to keep the building occupied at least 300 nights a year. Naturally, it won't be completely finished for the Sinatra opener. The loges won't be ready. |