greenroom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a room in a theater, studio, or venue where performers wait or relax before and after appearing

   The actors gathered in the greenroom while the stage crew changed the scenery.

A compound of green + room, recorded from the early eighteenth century. The reason for green is uncertain: proposed explanations include green-painted walls, green baize, or an earlier phrase for a stage-adjacent waiting room, but no single origin has been established.

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