footmen's gallery

American  

noun

1. the rearmost section of seats in the balcony of an English theater, especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Example Sentences

In Edinburgh the footmen's gallery still existed.

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After the riot in the footmen's gallery, the gentlemen of the county of Aberdeen resolved neither to give, nor to allow their servants to receive, any money from their visitors under the name of drink-money, card-money, &c., and instead, augmented their wages.

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Immediately a storm of disapprobation arose in the footmen's gallery.

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The clamour from the footmen's gallery alone almost sufficed to drown the sound from the stage; and, indeed, a short time later on, the disgraceful behaviour of the servants who attended their masters and mistresses to the play became so intolerable that the free gallery was closed to them, causing regular riots every night, till military aid had to be summoned.

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