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  • noun Plural form of loge.

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Examples

  • There was a row of seats slightly elevated and made of common plank, called loges; one of these nearest the stage was adorned by a golden eagle, from which some pitiful drapery was suspended; this was called the king's loge, but, I am constrained to say, it had never been visited by the king or any member of the royal family.

    Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends 1843

  • Cf.Vv. 711 f.] [Footnote 111: This passage seems to imply that charms and enchantments were sometimes used when a knight was armed (F.).] [Footnote 112: The "loges", so often mentioned in old French romances, were either window-balconies or architectural points of vantage commanding some pleasing prospect.

    Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914

  • The windows that look down on it are like loges from which one gazes inside, but one cannot look out from them (cited in Fenves 273-274 n14).

    Club Monad 2008

  • Sticking to his insistence on live music, Mr. Morris has the Brooklyn Youth Chorus appear almost as an apparition in one of the loges, for the brief moments they provide as angelic voices in the land of snow.

    A Suite That Cracks the Tchaikovsky Code Robert Greskovic 2010

  • Then you went on to a captive sketch competition called the the concours de dessin, or ‘en loges,’ the loge was an area of cubicles, illustrated above.

    Archive 2009-04-01 James Gurney 2009

  • Then you went on to a captive sketch competition called the the concours de dessin, or ‘en loges,’ the loge was an area of cubicles, illustrated above.

    En Loge Competition James Gurney 2009

  • She had a lot of fun exploring the other areas of the theatre, wandering into the loges, walking down to the orchestra pit, etc.

    - 2009

  • I stood facing a vast space that made me think only of the nave of a cathedral, but instead of windows it was divided into loges, or boxes, each one stuccoed and gilt with cherubim and cornucopia.

    Salle de Spectacle Young Geoffrion 2009

  • I stood facing a vast space that made me think only of the nave of a cathedral, but instead of windows it was divided into loges, or boxes, each one stuccoed and gilt with cherubim and cornucopia.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • A local company of the state militia accompanied Hughes from event to event until at last he arrived at the Lyceum Theater, “prettily decorated with American flags, which appeared in profusion upon the stage,” boxes, loges and balconies.

    Hughes at Elmira Dan Ernst 2008

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