dress circle definition
Overview
Define the meaning of the English word dress circle below. Dress circle is a noun. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English
Etymology
Formal dress clothing was generally worn in this gallery.
Noun
dress circle (plural dress circles)
- A gallery in a theater, generally the one containing the prominent and more expensive seats.
- 2019, Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution:
- This concerned complaints arising under the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by blacks denied hotel accommodations in Kansas and Missouri, excluded from the ladies' car of a train in Tennessee, and barred from the dress circle of a theater in San Francisco and from the Grand Opera House of New York City.
- 2019, Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution: