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Baignoire

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Baignoire
    A box of the lowest tier in a theater.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) baignoire
    A box in a theater on the same level as the stalls. Sometimes written baignoir.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Baignoire
    bān′war a box at the theatre on a level with the stalls.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F., lit., bath tub

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Orig. = 'bathing-box,' Fr. baigner, to bathe.

Usage in literature

Newman at last made his way out, and in doing so he passed beneath the baignoire of Mademoiselle Noemie. "The American" by Henry James