chalk farm n.4
in a theatre, one of the stage-boxes on either side of the pit; such boxes are usually booked by fashionable young men. The boxes are proximate to chorus girls whose footwear has been covered in chalk to facilitate dancing and which thus dusts the box and its users.
 | Guards 73: He was [...] familiar with the nick-names of Chalk Farm* for certain boxes [...] [note] *[T]he two stage-boxes on each side of the pit [...] are let to a number of noble blades, who step in there to admire insteps. The chalk which they receive from pretty feet and from feats of agility, has given the name above mentioned. |