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Dress circle

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A gallery in a theater, generally the one containing the prominent and more expensive seats.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra wordnet

Etymology

Formal dress clothing was generally worn in this gallery.

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