green box
English
Noun
green box (plural green boxes)
- (now historical) An upper box in a theatre. [from 18th c.]
- 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; […], OCLC 13631815:
- And we shall sit in the gallery green-box.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 18:
- 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.
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- A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade. [from 20th c.]
- A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone.
Coordinate terms
(colored boxes, especially electronic ones):
- blue box, beige box, black box, brown box, gray box, purple box, red box, yellow box, white box