单词 | dress-rehearse |
释义 | dress-rehearsev. transitive and intransitive. To rehearse (a play or other show) in full costume, esp. exactly as it would be done if it were a performance in front of an audience. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1905 Detroit Free Press 26 Sept. 4/4 They dress rehearsed it Sunday night and until 5 o'clock yesterday morning. 1928 Illustr. London News 17 Nov. 914/2 That last act..will have to be dress-rehearsed a few hours before the curtain goes up. 1962 Amer.-Statesman (Austin, Texas) 20 May e7/1 (caption) A 1922 model Packard sets the stage for these flappers and their friends who are dress-rehearsing for the Bachelors of Austin annual spring costume ball. 1969 Guardian 7 Mar. 10/5 The intrepid Apollo-9 men, dress-rehearsing a moon landing out in space this week. 1995 D. Lodge Therapy 44 Sitcom is hard work for actors... The schedule for The People Next Door is: readthrough on Tuesday and rehearse Wednesday to Friday in London, travel up to Rummidge on Saturday, dress-rehearse and record there on Sunday. 2013 S. Farris Kennedy & Reagan vi. 89 Though Reagan could not have known it, he was dress-rehearsing for what would eventually lead to a career in radio, then movies, and finally politics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1905 |
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