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dress rehearsal
noun
- a rehearsal of a play or other performance in costume and with scenery, properties, and lights arranged and operated as for a performance: often the final rehearsal.
dress rehearsal
noun
- the last complete rehearsal of a play or other work, using costumes, scenery, lighting, etc, as for the first night
- any full-scale practice
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dress rehearsal1
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Example Sentences
When we did it in the dress rehearsal one of the music cues was late and we both flubbed a rap line.
In the dress rehearsal, I almost got some real proper, go-to-the-hospital burns.
We would see her for every dress rehearsal we do and she would talk to us after every dance in the dress.
They stayed clothed during early rehearsals, before going nude—ironically —during dress rehearsal.
“What we are doing in Syria in some ways is a dress rehearsal for Israel,” he says.
Preparations for the first dress rehearsal of The Spring Road went on apace.
Mr. Monterey, the local manager, came himself to the dress rehearsal.
It is worth notice that at the dress rehearsal even Cui prophesied a brilliant success for the work.
The "dress-rehearsal" began at six o'clock on Sunday evening; and from the very start everything went wrong.
As this was not what is called a "dress rehearsal" neither Mr. Treadwell nor the children had on any special costumes.
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