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footmen's gallery

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

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

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