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command performance

American  

noun

  1. a performance of a play, opera, ballet, or the like, given at the request of a sovereign or head of state.


command performance British  

noun

  1. a performance of a play, opera, etc, at the request of a ruler or of royalty

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

command performance Idioms  
  1. An occasion that one is obliged to attend, as in My boss's invitations to dinner are always a command performance. This term originally (late 1800s) denoted a theatrical or musical performance presented at the behest of a sovereign or head of state. By the 1930s it was also used figuratively for any more or less obligatory occasion or performance.


Etymology

Origin of command performance

First recorded in 1895–1900

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