dress circle
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dress circle
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Formal dress clothing was generally worn in this gallery.
noun dress circles
- 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.
Talk about this word "dress circle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dress%20circle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dress circle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dress%20circle "dress circle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dress%20circle.Cite this
@misc{dress_circle_2026,
title = {dress circle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dress%20circle},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
