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Definition of Greenrooms
1. greenroom [n] - See also: greenroom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenrooms
Literary usage of Greenrooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Musical World (1874)
"The playgoers' greenrooms deplorably lack height. When the pictures of M.
Baudry are put up they will, I am afraid, bring out yet more this defect. ..."
2. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"He ends by dragging her through taverns and greenrooms, and pointing his finger
at her from a distance, as a gamester, a drunkard, is unwilling to touch her ..."
3. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Gregory (1913)
"There are no greenrooms in these theatres and the Company look rather miserable
straying about. Mrs. G. is lending me her motor this afternoon and I am ..."
4. Bismarck by Charles Grant Robertson (1919)
"Whether Bismarck first, in the greenrooms of the Berlin Congress, where so many
tempting whispers were uttered, suggested the idea of France occupying Tunis ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"Nothing escapes him. He descends to esoteric depths in his researches. The current
gossip of the greenrooms he knows of course : the plans ot this manager, ..."
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