boxkeeper

noun

boxkeeper

noun

Etymology From box + keeper.

1

Historical A theatre attendant in charge of the boxes.

I descended, escorted by the fruit-woman, who desired a box-keeper to open the door of Mrs Pott's box […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 255

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