green box en · NOUN
Meanings
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(historical) An upper box in a theatre.
And we shall sit in the gallery green-box.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXCIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:I told her the strength of my purse, and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful spring of thirteen, stuck up in a green box with a blazing whore.
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 18
- A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade.
- A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone.
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| green boxes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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