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語源

From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), 古期英語 lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊʒ/
• (General American) IPA: /loʊʒ/
• 韻: -əʊʒ

名詞

loge (plural loges)

1. A booth or stall.
2. The lodge of a concierge.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 70:

     About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.

3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
   • 2006, George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People‎, →ISBN, page 151:

     In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment.

   • 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785‎, →ISBN, page 274:

     Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.

アナグラム

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