dress rehearsal meaning

• Noun: dress rehearsal
  1. A full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance

  Derived forms: dress rehearsals

  Type of: dry run, rehearsal

  Encyclopedia: Dress rehearsal

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Examples

1. at least one dress rehearsal should be performed in dark twilight.
2. the earlier revolts had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.
3. the audience behaved indecorously as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
4. hong kong junior chamber ensemble at the dress rehearsal
5. no dress rehearsal in our life, every day was a field pickup