The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baignoire \Bai`gnoire"\, n. [Written also baignoir.] [F.,
lit., bath tub.]
A box of the lowest tier in a theater.
--Du Maurier.
Wiktionary
n. (cx dated English) A box of the lowest tier in a theatre.
Usage examples of "baignoire".
On raising the latch and crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression as when one enters at the theatre into a grated baignoire, before the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted.
There was the exceedingly pneumatic Adelina Patti, her bosom constantly threatening to levitate out of her décolletage à la baignoire.
When I asked him to describe her he said you had her tucked away in a baignoire and he hadn't actually seen her.
At the theatre her vivacity sank into a breathless hush, and she sat intent in her corner of their baignoire, with the gaze of a neophyte about to be initiated into the sacred mysteries.