first night

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noun

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Origin of first night

First recorded in 1705–15

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Examples from the Web for first night

She saw Jarvis before the curtain making a first-night's speech.
Bambi|Marjorie Benton Cooke
It was on a muggy December evening that he accompanied Lady Marchsea and her eminent husband to a first-night performance.
Here and Hereafter|Barry Pain
They may be put into two main groups—the first-night deadheads and the other-nights deadheads—and there are subdivisions.
Our Stage and Its Critics|"E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
But whether, after the first-night criticisms, the piece will do, is a question that must be left to the future for solution.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890|Various

How did the first-night audience of public, and critics, receive the new play?
Oscar Wilde|Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

British Dictionary definitions for first night

first night

noun

the first public performance of a play or other production
(as modifier)first-night nerves

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first night

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first night

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