Brewer's: Green Room

(The). The common waiting-room in a theatre for the performers; so called because at one time the walls were coloured green to relieve the eyes affected by the glare of the stage lights.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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