A dress rehearsal is the final practice, done exactly as the real thing. The dress rehearsal went badly, a full dress rehearsal, at the dress rehearsal.
Theatre superstition holds that a bad dress rehearsal means a good opening night, which is a comfort invented by people who needed one. Everything is used for the first time together, which is why so much goes wrong.
1noundress rehearsalThe final practice, done exactly as the real thing.
“At the dress rehearsal, the lead actor tripped over his long cloak.”
dress rehearsal is a rehearsal.
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