marquee vs sentry-box

marquee

noun
  • A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. 

  • A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally. 

  • Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee. 

  • A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. 

  • In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image. 

adj
  • Most famous; preeminent. 

verb
  • To display text prominently at the top, as in a video. i.e. The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation. Marquee it. 

  • To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool. 

sentry-box

noun
  • A booth erected to provide rudimentary shelter to a sentry on his post. 

How often have the words marquee and sentry-box occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )