NOUN
- a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance
How To Use dress rehearsal In A Sentence
- Apparently, Camilla had six outfit fittings and 10 hat fittings, and a final dress rehearsal before settling on the final dress.
- There is a quote beloved of earnest young sportsmen, and the coaches shouting pick‑me-ups at them through a loudhailer: "Life is not a dress rehearsal. Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John
- These elections, you could almost say, are a dress rehearsal for the real elections.
- So the final dress rehearsal passed without any major mishaps.
- The earlier protests had just been dress rehearsals for full-scale revolution.
- We finished the dress rehearsal an hour before we let the audience in, and were still finding scenes we could not get through without corpsing (actors laughing at each other on stage) or things that needed to be re-staged for props to work.
- No dress rehearsal in our life, every day was a field pickup.
- To them life was just a dress rehearsal for the afterlife. Times, Sunday Times
- To them life was just a dress rehearsal for the afterlife. Times, Sunday Times
- After a day spent in dress rehearsal for a war that doesn't seem to be happening, the boys head to the local dance club looking like ludicrous anachronisms in their white Foreign Legion caps.
