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dress circle
noun
- a circular or curving division of seats in a theater, opera house, etc., usually the first gallery, originally set apart for spectators in evening dress.
dress circle
noun
- a tier of seats in a theatre or other auditorium, usually the first gallery above the ground floor
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dress circle1
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Example Sentences
Was it on the Boulevard,354 in a carriage, or in the large alley of the Tuileries, or else in the dress-circle at the theatre?
He could see opera-glasses levelled on her from the boxes overhead, and over the edge of the dress circle.
We pay something like sixpence half-penny or sevenpence apiece, and are inducted into the dress-circle.
They turned it into a playhouse, by remodelling its gallery into a dress-circle and balcony and adding another gallery above.
A portion of the dress-circle is set apart for the wives of Brigham Young.
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