crush room

English

Noun

crush room (plural crush rooms)

1. (dated, 19th century) A large room in a theater, opera house, or other public building, where the public may stand during the intermissions; a foyer or lobby.
   • August 2, 1833, Thomas Babington Macaulay, letter to Hannah M. Macaulay

     Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush-room of the opera at night.

References

• “crush”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.