grand tier
Americannoun
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The Metropolitan Opera took the name of one prominent benefactor, the investor Alberto W. Vilar, off its grand tier in 2003 after some promised pledges failed to materialize; he was later convicted of fraud.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2020
Fridays Under 40 tickets, by contrast, cost $60 to $100 for seats in the orchestra and grand tier that normally start at $80 and $90.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2015
For a review about the cult of beauty in art, Grandville contributed a cartoon of a male au dience�literally all eyes�ogling a beauteous young thing in the front row of the grand tier.
From Time Magazine Archive
From their vantage on the Met's grand tier, the over-two-story-high murals will glow through the glassed vaults to dominate a city vista more spacious than the Piazza San Marco in Venice.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the grand tier they sat, a family-party air about them, nodding to each other, exhaling orris, talking animatedly about nothing at all.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar
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