Definition of "dress rehearsal" []

• A full, uninterrupted rehearsal of a play with costumes and stage properties. (noun)

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• "Bonnie had been so focused on the approach of their weeklong dress rehearsal that another significant date completely slipped her mind until Darren Taylor phoned to inform her that her divorce was officially final."
• "The afternoon before, when the other officers had been checking out the battle scenario, he had superintended a dress rehearsal of this bit of it for a BBC TV News crew."
• "Fifteen years had passed since our victory over the dictatorships, and even the brutal dress rehearsal of Korea hadn't changed our op­timism."