Sentence:  Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the <WSD>loges</WSD> in the "avant-scène" hampered the effect of the voice. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.