crush room

Noun

 * 1)  A large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer.
 * 2) * August 2, 1833,, letter to Hannah M. Macaulay
 * Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush-room of the opera at night.