green room
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See also: greenroom
Etymology
First appears c. 1701 in the writings of Colley Cibber.
Noun
green room (plural green rooms)
- In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.
- 2016, Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed, Chapter 12, page 80:
- There are three smaller rooms he can use as rehearsal space or dressing rooms or green rooms, according to need.
- (surfing) The inside of a tube (cylindrical wave).
- 1996, Surfer Bob, archived from the original on 30 December 2005:
- Never quite got covered up, but stood in the doorway to the green room with the lip feathering over my shoulders several times
Synonyms
- (room for performers): tiring-room, tiring-house
Translations
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