loge

Etymology

From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge.

noun

1. A booth or stall.
2. The lodge of a concierge.
   About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in. 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 70
3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
   In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level. 2006, George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, page 151
4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
   Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice. 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785, page 274