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What (who) is dress circle - definition

SPACE FOR AN AUDIENCE TO HEAR AND WATCH SPEECHES, LECTURES, OR PERFORMANCES
Auditoria; Auditoriums; Auditorium site; Imperial box; Dress circle; Continental seating; Dress Circle
  • The auditorium of the Municipal Theatre of [[Regensburg]], [[Germany]]
  • A typical [[movie theater]] auditorium
  • The grand auditorium of the [[Great Hall of the People]] in [[Beijing]], [[China]]
  • The auditorium of the [[Vienna State Opera]]

dress circle         
¦ noun Brit. the first level of seats above the ground floor in a theatre.
?US the front section of this level of seating.
Dress circle         
·add. ·- A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
dress circle         
The dress circle is the lowest of the curved rows of seats upstairs in a theatre.
N-SING

Wikipedia

Auditorium

An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres, the number of auditoria (or auditoriums) is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community halls, and theaters, and may be used for rehearsal, presentation, performing arts productions, or as a learning space.

Examples of use of dress circle
1. In a West End dress circle, I was seated behind a woman who perpetually leant forward.
2. To have put the Ashes at the end of this summer is akin to having the Queen to the theatre and putting her in the dress circle.
3. Nowadays, in the eyes of Grasse and his fans, we simply sit in the dress circle and crow every time the U.S. screws something up.
4. So when, during the Requiem, we reached the Dies Irae, with its ominous warning of doom and disaster to come, an extra shiver seemed to run round the dress circle.