green room

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Etymology

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First appears c. 1701 in the writings of Colley Cibber.

Noun

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green room (plural green rooms)

  1. In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.
    • 2016, Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed, Chapter 12, page 80:
      There are three smaller rooms he can use as rehearsal space or dressing rooms or green rooms, according to need.
  2. (surfing) The inside of a tube (cylindrical wave).
    • 1996, Surfer Bob[1], archived from the original on 30 December 2005:
      Never quite got covered up, but stood in the doorway to the green room with the lip feathering over my shoulders several times

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