loge – English noun declension

English noun forms of loge

Noun: loge
Singularloge
Pluralloges

Sample Sentences

  • About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in. [1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 70:]
  • In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level. [2006, George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, →ISBN, page 151:]
  • Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment. [1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice. [2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785, →ISBN, page 274:]

Etymology

From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge. See: French Nouns 'loge', German Nouns 'Laube'.