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Box seat   /bɑks sit/   Listen
Box seat

noun
1.
A special seat in a theater or grandstand box.
2.
The driver's seat on a coach.  Synonym: box.





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"Box seat" Quotes from Famous Books



... Director of Transport, provided me with a buggy, a pair of horses, and a driver, and Prince Francis of Teck, the Chief Remount Officer, selected a pony suitable to my equestrian powers. The buggy proved a very great success; the box seat carried my instruments and dressings, the front a 4-gallon tin water-bottle for emergency operations, and the rear shelf my personal belongings. The water-bottle was lent to me by the ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins
... this superior young person without other quiet attentions. "Profane Bill," driver of the Slumgullion Stage, widely known in the newspapers for his "gallantry" in invariably offering the box seat to the fair sex, had excepted Miss Mary from this attention, on the ground that he had a habit of "cussin' on upgrades," and gave her half the coach to herself. Jack Hamlin, a gambler, having once silently ridden with her in the same coach, afterward ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte


Words linked to "Box seat" :   loge, seat, four-in-hand, box, grandstand, coach-and-four, covered stand, coach


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