dress rehearsal

1. 1.

   a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance

   Broaderrehearsal

Questions about dress rehearsal

What does dress rehearsal mean?

dress rehearsal means "a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance".

Is dress rehearsal a common word?

dress rehearsal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.